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Cultural or emotional association
A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal
Connotation
distinct meanings in logic, philosophy, and common usage. See connotation. In semiotics, connotation arises when the denotative relationship between a signifier
Connotation_(semiotics)
Academic journal
Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal that was established in 1991 covering the field of English
Connotations_(journal)
1997 studio album by Robben Ford
Blues Connotation is an album by American blues guitarist Robben Ford. The album A Song I thought I heard Buddy Sing contains material from the same sessions
Blues_Connotation
Classical music composition by Aaron Copland
Connotations is a classical music composition for symphony orchestra written by American composer Aaron Copland. Commissioned by Leonard Bernstein in 1962
Connotations_(Copland)
Prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender
Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone, but primarily affects women and girls. It has been linked
Sexism
Pejorative term for the far-right
murderer Patrick Crusius. In the mid-2020s, the term lost its political connotation in popular use, referring more generally to a person who is a loser or
Chud_(pejorative)
intention of causing offense, while others may be much more offensive. The connotation of a term and prevalence of its use as a pejorative or neutral descriptor
List_of_ethnic_slurs
Derogatory or discriminating term
contemptuous; (Linguistics) giving or acquiring a less favourable meaning or connotation." A pejorative or derogatory term, which could be equivalent to a slur
Pejorative
Continent
and Russian influence. Such questions were affected by the positive connotations associated with the term Europe by its users. Such cultural considerations
Europe
Type of health care for the terminally ill
destitute people are cared for, and does not necessarily have a palliative connotation. The goal of hospice care is to prioritize comfort, quality of life and
Hospice
describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities. Some people consider
List of disability-related terms with negative connotations
List_of_disability-related_terms_with_negative_connotations
American politician (born 1943)
Newt". It contained lists of "contrasting words"—words with negative connotations such as "radical", "sick," and "traitors"—and "optimistic positive governing
Newt_Gingrich
Queen of France from 1774 to 1792
was instead celebrated the day before, on All Saints' Day, due to the connotations of the date. Shortly after her birth she was placed under the care of
Marie_Antoinette
Rhetorical technique to create bias
emotive connotations of these words are different. Firm carries a positive connotation, obstinate carries a neutral (or slightly negative) connotation, and
Emotive_conjugation
Internet top-level domain
with the intent to focus on pornographic content, but to use the adult connotations as a benefit to a marketing strategy. An example is the registration
.xxx
Person who holds an office
The term officer is close to being a synonym, but it has more military connotations. An elected official is a person who is an official by virtue of an election
Official
Species of plant
the flower has largely taken on the Japanese connotation with death and afterlife, and the Korean connotation of unrealized love. "Lycoris radiata (L'Hér
Lycoris_radiata
British rock singer and songwriter (1946–1991)
name, very universal and immediate. I was certainly aware of the gay connotations, but that was just one facet of it." At about the same time, he legally
Freddie_Mercury
Word synonymous with intellectual
intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The term, first recorded in 1875, draws its metonymy
Highbrow
Excessive attention or control by a manager
an obsession with details. Micromanagement generally has a negative connotation, suggesting a lack of freedom and trust in the workplace, and an excessive
Micromanagement
Intent to transform or replace the fundamental principles of society
coinage to comprehend the entire political spectrum, though retaining the connotation of "change at the root". The Oxford English Dictionary traces usage of
Radical_politics
Virtual online communities
power of stereotypes. Stereotypes can have both negative and positive connotations. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, youth were accused of responsibility
Social_media
Shock effect technique in media and art
Gross-out is described as a movement in art (often with comical connotations), which is intended to shock the viewer(s) and disgust the wider audience
Gross-out
Branch of Orthodox Judaism
the term 'ultra-Orthodox', as the prefix 'ultra' carries pejorative connotations of irrational extremism." Longman, Chia. "Engendering Identities as Political
Haredi_Judaism
Type of Jewish mysticism
magic, alchemy and divination, Kabbalah acquired some popular occult connotations forbidden within Judaism, where Jewish Practical Kabbalah was a minor
Kabbalah
Urban socioeconomic process
used to describe a wide array of phenomena, sometimes in a pejorative connotation. Gentrification is a common and controversial topic in urban politics
Gentrification
American actor and producer (born 1964)
being played by David Alan Grier. With the producers fearing the racial connotations of a black actor in such a part, Azaria inherited the full role. He appeared
Hank_Azaria
Cosmological dualism in Chinese philosophy
on a coffin suggests it might have an unknown afterlife mythological connotation. Further more, the use of black for male genitalia instead of assumed
Yin_and_yang
Person who has emigrated
émigré (French: [emigʁe]) is a person who has emigrated, often with a connotation of political or social exile or self-exile. The word is the past participle
Émigré
Community and culture of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people
that are indirect and sometimes incidental but which carry a negative connotation. For LGBTQ youths, the most common type of microaggression encountered
LGBTQ_community
List of age-related terms with negative connotations List of disability-related terms with negative connotations Category:Political pejoratives for people
Lists of pejorative terms for people
Lists_of_pejorative_terms_for_people
Obscene hand gesture
In the United States, the Shocker is a hand gesture with a sexual connotation. The index, middle, and little fingers are extended, while the ring finger
Shocker_(gesture)
Low-quality AI-generated digital content
and online advertising. Coined in the 2020s, the term has a pejorative connotation similar to spam. "Slop" was selected as the 2025 Word of the Year by
AI_slop
English participant in the Gunpowder Plot (1570–1606)
oddly dressed person, while in many places it has lost any pejorative connotation and instead refers to any male person and the plural form can refer to
Guy_Fawkes
anarchists use "libertarian socialist" to avoid anarchism's negative connotations and emphasize its connections with socialism. Anarchism retains a historical
Definition of anarchism and libertarianism
Definition_of_anarchism_and_libertarianism
Type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse without consent
has varied historically and culturally. Originally, rape had no sexual connotation and is still used in other contexts in English. In Roman law, it or raptus
Rape
British evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
has adopted the term bright as a way of associating positive public connotations with those who possess a naturalistic worldview. He has given support
Richard_Dawkins
Humanoid walking vehicles
much larger than human beings. Different subgenres exist, with varying connotations of realism. The concept of Super Robot and Real Robot are two such examples
Mecha
Propaganda that does not hide its origin or nature
"propaganda" does not have a negative connotation. For example, the Russian word propaganda (пропаганда) has a neutral connotation in some cases, similar to the
White_propaganda
Turkic ethnic group
(Muslim); the term Musulmān in this situation did not signify religious connotations, because the Altishahris exclude other Muslim peoples like the Kirghiz
Uyghurs
National motto of India
'truth', eva 'indeed' (emphatic particle), and jayate 'conquers'. Popular connotations also include: 'Truth stands Invincible' 'Truth alone conquers, not falsehood'
Satyameva_Jayate
Term in folklore
The Green Man is a term with a variety of connotations in folklore and related fields. During the early modern period in England, and sometimes elsewhere
Green_Man_(folklore)
Italian physicist and astronomer (1564–1642)
"Simplicio" in Italian), the name "Simplicio" in Italian also has the connotation of "simpleton". This portrayal of Simplicio made Dialogue Concerning
Galileo_Galilei
Engaging in risky financial transactions
from a decline in the asset's value. Speculation often has a pejorative connotation, as the activity is linked to bubbles, economic downturns, and financial
Speculation
Act intentionally causing one's own death
illegal, but many organisations have stopped it because of the negative connotation. In the United States, suicide is not illegal, but may be associated
Suicide
Transformation of goods, services, ideas and people into commodities or objects of trade
information, people) into commodities, or objects for sale. It has a connotation of losing an inherent quality or social relationship when something is
Commodification
Group of eight American universities
Yale situation, any symbolism in it. ... Harvard boutique to me has the connotation of liberalism and elitism" and said Harvard in his remark was intended
Ivy_League
Street art campaign by Shepard Fairey
being a "transition ...into something that had more of an Orwellian connotation". It is this new image with the text "OBEY" which has become a worldwide
Andre_the_Giant_Has_a_Posse
Female offspring
is a first degree relative. The word daughter also has several other connotations attached to it, one of these being used in reference to a female descendant
Daughter
International standards for dates and times
permits the use of "−00" with the same denotation as "+00" but a differing connotation: an unknown UTC offset. To represent a negative offset, ISO 8601 specifies
ISO_8601
Iranic ethnic group
especially in Fars. At that time, the term "Kurd" did not have ethnic connotations and generally referred to nomadic people, and later scholars claimed
Kurds
Linguistic and philosophical term
bearing, reference, indication, application, implication, denotation and connotation, the weight, the drift, the tenour, the lie, the trend, the range, the
Significs
Type of narrative convention
tropes frequently entails reinforcing others. Despite genres having the connotation of fixed or firm boundaries, they gradually shift over time, splinter
Genre_convention
God in Greek mythology
the color could describe the sky, Cornutus regularly gives it divine connotations. Pluto's twin sister was named Glauca. Ambiguity of color is characteristic
Pluto_(god)
Unmarried woman, often older
men, "he never married"), but this generally does not carry the same connotations in reference to age and perceived desirability in marriage. Long before
Spinster
American actor (born 1951)
first four lines I liked and I didn't realize it had any transphobic connotation." In 2023, Hamill again apologized for liking a tweet by Rowling directed
Mark_Hamill
West Germanic language
loanwords from Latin and Latinised Greek. These words often have different connotations from their Germanic counterparts and are usually perceived as more scholarly
German_language
Largely archaic name for China
contact in the region. Its use in Japanese originally had a neutral connotation, but the word came to be perceived as derogatory by Chinese people during
Shina_(word)
Empire in Eurasia (1206–1368)
lesser worth. Another theory suggests that the word "Genghis" bears connotations of strength, firmness, hardness, or righteousness. A third hypothesis
Mongol_Empire
Common expression regarding optimism or pessimism
regarding a car's gas tank occurs in print with the optimism/pessimism connotations as early as 1929, and the glass-with-water version is mentioned simply
Is the glass half empty or half full?
Is_the_glass_half_empty_or_half_full?
Technique of painting with small, distinct dots
works of these artists, but is now used without its earlier pejorative connotation. The movement Seurat began with this technique is known as Neo-impressionism
Pointillism
Sino-Tibetan language
language—though the Chinese term 方言; fāngyán; 'dialect' does not carry the precise connotations of "dialect" in English—while linguists typically analyze them as separate
Chinese_language
Theatre of war in Europe
step, since after the Russian Revolution of 1917 shoulder boards had connotations as a symbol of the old Tsarist régime. Beginning in autumn 1941, units
Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)
Dravidian language
tam-iḻ, with tam meaning "self" or "one's self", and "-iḻ" having the connotation of "unfolding sound". Alternatively, he suggests a derivation of tamiḻ
Tamil_language
College basketball team
name and associated mascot and logos in 2021, because of the "negative connotation and violence associated with the Crusader imagery", and because of its
Valparaiso Beacons men's basketball
Valparaiso_Beacons_men's_basketball
Political slang
stay woke, recorded since at least 1924. The term acquired political connotations by the 1970s and gained further popularity in the 2010s with the hashtag
Woke
Court with little or no judicial credibility
in the Anglosphere. The term is sometimes used without any negative connotation. For example, many Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball teams
Kangaroo_court
Expansion of auto-oriented, low-density development in suburbs
term urban sprawl is highly politicized and almost always has negative connotations. It is criticized for causing environmental degradation, intensifying
Urban_sprawl
Suburb of a large city, especially in France
Beginning in the 1970s, the term banlieue has taken on a particular connotation, becoming a popular word for economically-deprived suburbs featuring
Banlieue
Presumptuous audacity
"audacity". Thus, the original Yiddish word has a strongly negative connotation, but the form which entered English as a Yiddishism in American English
Chutzpah
American basketball player (born 1961)
league forbid him from wearing that jersey due to the number's sexual connotations; Rodman wound up wearing number 70 instead. Rodman lived in team owner
Dennis_Rodman
Slang term
and interests are understandable to society. The term has an offensive connotation and is often used ironically. According to Yandex analysts, the word
Normie_(slang)
State of being organized by, or advocating for, tribes or tribal lifestyles
recently settled agricultural societies or civilizations. With a negative connotation and in a political context, tribalism can also mean discriminatory behavior
Tribalism
City in north-east Wales
Saxons, has also meant a "piece of enclosed land" without any watery connotations, a "pasture", or simply a home or hamlet. The person "Wryhtel" has not
Wrexham
Slang term for a novice or newcomer
family called The Newbies. Different spellings can have quite different connotations; so in some contexts a "newb" refers to a beginner who is willing to
Newbie
Nationwide armed struggle in Mexico (1910–1920)
men a greater sense of superiority over women, which gave women the connotation of being a prize. That idea often lead to violence against women, which
Mexican_Revolution
Terms and phrases relating to sexual activities
scatolinguistics). References to the anal tract are often given a sexual connotation in the context of anal sex (in particular, in a context of male homosexuality)
Sexual_slang
German term for people with roots in Southeastern Europe, Middle East, and North Africa
more ambiguous connotations to Southern European immigrants and the working class, it is now used with a strong derogatory connotation against people
Kanake
American fast food restaurant chain
admitted the change was an attempt to distance the chain from the unhealthy connotations of "fried". The early 1990s saw a number of successful major product
KFC
Food produced from cacao seeds
Chocolate is a popular metaphor for the black racial category. It has connotations of transgression and sexuality and is gendered as feminine. In the US
Chocolate
Trump cards of tarot decks
only a picture. Every tarot deck is different and carries a different connotation with the art, however most symbolism remains the same. The earliest,
Major_Arcana
Seclusion from unwanted attention or disclosure
jurisprudence. In Sinosphere, the term yinsi (隱私) or siyin (私隱) long carried connotations of shameful secrecy, and historians have traced how Confucian and later
Privacy
Philosophical concept
breaks down into signified and signifiier. Connotation and denotation Connotation Denotation Connotation in semiotics Denotation in semiotics Denotational
Meaning_(semiotics)
Enticing a person to sexual behaviour
astray' or 'to draw aside'. As a result, the term may have a negative connotation. Seen negatively, seduction involves temptation and enticement, often
Seduction
Marketing strategy
reposition the brand/company, occasionally to distance itself from negative connotations of the previous branding, or to move the brand upmarket; they may also
Rebranding
Touch with the lips, usually to express love, affection or greeting
of one's lips against another person, animal, or object. The cultural connotations associated with kissing vary significantly between different societies
Kiss
Island and neighborhood in New York City
Island had received the nickname of "Farewell Island" because of its connotations with fear and despair, and it was also known as simply "The Island".
Roosevelt_Island
Military campaign following the September 11 attacks
Crusades became subject to heavy criticism due to its controversial connotations in the Muslim world and historical Muslim-Christian relations. On 20
War_on_terror
(北斗; Běidǒu), or a "cup", signifying a "whirl", and also has martial connotations meaning "fight", "struggle", "battle". Temples of the Jade Deity, a representation
Chinese_folk_religion
American media franchise
franchise was renamed Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles due to the violent connotations of the word "ninja". In response to concerns that the series was drifting
Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles
Jamaican Patois expletive
word originally referred to a sanitary cloth, it carries strong taboo connotations in Jamaican culture. Casual or joking use by people unfamiliar with its
Bomboclat
Intense, irrational attraction
Infatuation refers to being "in love" or intensely love smitten, with possible connotations of youth, irrationality, foolishness, or capriciousness. An individual
Infatuation
Spanish-language profanities
Grijelmo wrote in El País that euphemisms tend to acquire the negative connotations of the terms they replace, eventually requiring replacement by newer
Puto_and_puta
Name list
from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has given the name a negative connotation. Ebenezer Adam (1919–2011), Ghanaian teacher and politician Ebenezer
Ebenezer_(given_name)
Range of Indian religious traditions
or northern India. Among the earliest known records of 'Hindu' with connotations of religion may be in the 7th-century CE Chinese text Record of the Western
Hinduism
Caricature by Charles Philipon
Weisberg cited. This anachronism led James Cuno to conclude that the connotation of foolishness does not hold when examining contemporary slang dictionaries
Pear_(caricature)
Muslim-majority countries, states, districts, or towns
Islamism is anything other than Islam renewed and revived. Because of its connotations in Western mainstream media, critics say the term may lead to Islamophobia
Islamic_world
Capital city of Bahia, Brazil
backgrounds of people by type of surname. Those with surnames with a religious connotation were 53.1% African in genetic ancestry and tended to be in lower economic
Salvador,_Bahia
Term for Chinese middle-aged women
first wife of a man who had multiple wives. The term had a positive connotation and was a term of endearment for modest housewives who may not have been
Chinese_dama
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