significances
Degrees of importance
Significances is the plural of significance, referring to multiple meanings, implications, or degrees of importance.
A scholar might analyze the various significances of a historical event—its political, economic, and cultural meanings.
The plural appears most often in academic or analytical contexts where a single thing carries layered or competing meanings.
Measure of heaviness
- gravityMutual mass attraction
- consequenceResult of an action
- momentBrief period of time
- magnitudeSize or scale
import · value · worth · note · prominence · salience · substance · bearing
Explanations of meaning
- definitionsStated meanings of terms
- sensesMeans of perception
- denotationsLiteral meanings of terms
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
explanations · understandings · concepts · essences · gists · messages · contents · ideas
Resulting effects or outcomes
- implicationsSuggested but unspoken meanings
- repercussionsIndirect results of actions
- effectsConsequences or belongings
- outcomesFinal results achieved
results · impacts · aftermaths · corollaries · fallout · reverberations · sequelae · upshots
State of mattering here
- pertinenceQuality of being applicable
- applicabilityDegree of fitness
- bearingPosture or orientation
- relationConnection or kin
correlation · linkage · association · relatedness · germaneness · appositeness · affinity · alignment
weight
Measure of heaviness
- gravityMutual mass attraction
- consequenceResult of an action
- momentBrief period of time
magnitude · import · value · worth · note · prominence · salience · substance · bearing · relevance
interpretations
Explanations of meaning
- definitionsStated meanings of terms
- sensesMeans of perception
- denotationsLiteral meanings of terms
semantics · explanations · understandings · concepts · essences · gists · messages · contents · ideas · purports
ramifications
Resulting effects or outcomes
- implicationsSuggested but unspoken meanings
- repercussionsIndirect results of actions
- effectsConsequences or belongings
outcomes · results · impacts · aftermaths · corollaries · fallout · reverberations · sequelae · upshots · byproducts
relevance
State of mattering here
- pertinenceQuality of being applicable
- applicabilityDegree of fitness
- bearingPosture or orientation
relation · correlation · linkage · association · relatedness · germaneness · appositeness · affinity · alignment · interrelation
significancesinsignificances
Things without importance
trivialities · irrelevances · inconsequentialities · pettiness · trifles
significancesemptiness
Absence of substance
hollowness · absurdities · inanities · futilities · vacuities
- cultural significanceMeaning within a community
- historical significanceWhy past events matter
- statistical significanceUnlikely due to chance
- historic significanceLasting impact of events
- religious significanceSpiritual importance or value
- symbolic significanceMeaning conveyed through representation