importance
Why something matters
Importance is the quality of mattering or having significance.
Something of importance deserves attention or carries weight: a matter of great importance, the importance of regular exercise.
To attach importance to something is to consider it significant.
Self-importance is an inflated sense of one's own significance—pompousness or vanity.
Forceful contact or consequence
- effectResult of a cause
- consequenceResult of an action
- outcomeFinal result of events
- powerEnergy transfer rate
sway · clout · leverage · reach · bearing · ramification · ripple · aftermath
What something signifies
- consequenceResult of an action
- weightMeasure of heaviness
- momentBrief period of time
- substancePhysical material with mass
seriousness · gravity · noteworthiness · centrality · magnitude · profundity · depth · meaningfulness
Importance or price
- meritDeserved praise-worthiness
- usefulnessPractical value or purpose
- benefitAdvantage or gain
- utilityFunctional worth or purpose
preciousness · treasure · asset · contribution · service · advantage · indispensability · irreplaceability
Pressing need for action
- precedenceSuperior rank or importance
- primacyCondition of being foremost
- paramountOf supreme significance
- pressingRequiring immediate attention
critical · imperative · necessity · chief · vital · crucial · key · foremost
Quality of being applicable
- applicabilityDegree of fitness
- connectionA joining or relation
- bearingPosture or orientation
- relationConnection or kin
materiality · appropriateness · germaneness · suitability · context · correlation · linkage · concernment
Central essential portion
- fundamentalForming the base
- cruxMost important point
- heartCirculatory system's pump
- cornerstoneFoundational building block
keystone · bedrock · pillar · foundation · basis · root · nucleus · kernel
impact
Forceful contact or consequence
- effectResult of a cause
- consequenceResult of an action
- outcomeFinal result of events
power · sway · clout · leverage · reach · bearing · ramification · ripple · aftermath · footprint
meaning
What something signifies
- consequenceResult of an action
- weightMeasure of heaviness
- momentBrief period of time
substance · seriousness · gravity · noteworthiness · centrality · magnitude · profundity · depth · meaningfulness · weightiness
value
Importance or price
- meritDeserved praise-worthiness
- usefulnessPractical value or purpose
- benefitAdvantage or gain
utility · preciousness · treasure · asset · contribution · service · advantage · indispensability · irreplaceability · valuableness
urgency
Pressing need for action
- precedenceSuperior rank or importance
- primacyCondition of being foremost
- paramountOf supreme significance
pressing · critical · imperative · necessity · chief · vital · crucial · key · foremost · essential
pertinence
Quality of being applicable
- applicabilityDegree of fitness
- connectionA joining or relation
- bearingPosture or orientation
relation · materiality · appropriateness · germaneness · suitability · context · correlation · linkage · concernment · affinity
core
Central essential portion
- fundamentalForming the base
- cruxMost important point
- heartCirculatory system's pump
cornerstone · keystone · bedrock · pillar · foundation · basis · root · nucleus · kernel · linchpin
- importancesignificance, consequence, weight, gravity, magnitude
- emphasisstress, accent, stressing, highlighting, underscoring
- seriousnessgravity, solemnity, earnestness, gravitas, severity
- significancesignificance, meaning, relevance, value, worth
- worthvalue, merit, worth, deserving, worthiness
- prioritizationranking, priority list, ordering, urgency, urgent
importanceunimportance
Lack of consequence
insignificance · triviality · inconsequence · irrelevance · immateriality
importanceobscurity
State of being unknown
anonymity · insignificance · lowliness · ignominy · disrepute
importanceworthlessness
Lack of any value
valuelessness · uselessness · expendability · triviality · cheapness
- very importantOf utmost significance
- most importantOf greatest significance
- less importantOf lower significance
- more importantHaving greater significance
- The Importance of Being EarnestVictorian comedy of manners
- most importantlyEmphasizing top priority
important, unimportant, self-important, importantly, unimportance, self-importance, self-importantly