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connote v. t. (past & past part. connoted; pres. part. connoting)

To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply. "Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing."

(Logic) To imply as an attribute. "The word "white" denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the attribute "whiteness.""

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Etymology of 'Connote'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... be said, there is in the term 'prevents' an implication of the direct exercise of force. But if we abstract from any such implication, and conceive of such force as the term inhibition seems to connote, as restricted to the associated neural or physiological processes, no unwarranted assumptions need be imported by the term into the facts, and the definition may, ...

— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

Words linked to "Connote" : express, show, evince, predicate, connotation