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Denotations and Connotations

The document discusses the difference between the denotation and connotation of words. It states that a word's denotation is its literal or dictionary definition, while its connotation refers to the feelings and ideas associated with it. It provides examples to show that words can have similar denotations but different connotations, such as "smile" having a positive connotation while "smirk" has a negative one. The document concludes by giving further examples of words like "slim" and "skinny" that are similar in denotation but convey different feelings due to their connotations.

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Denotations and Connotations

The document discusses the difference between the denotation and connotation of words. It states that a word's denotation is its literal or dictionary definition, while its connotation refers to the feelings and ideas associated with it. It provides examples to show that words can have similar denotations but different connotations, such as "smile" having a positive connotation while "smirk" has a negative one. The document concludes by giving further examples of words like "slim" and "skinny" that are similar in denotation but convey different feelings due to their connotations.

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Denotations and Connotations

Denotation Connotation
 A word’s denotation is  A word’s connotation
its literal meaning – is the feelings and
that is, the definition ideas associated with a
you find in a word.
dictionary.
Denotation and Connotation
 Using a thesaurus, you can find  Smile suggests happiness, while
words that have similar smirk suggests a smugness (an
denotations but different offensive self-satisfaction)
connotations.
 When someone smiles at us, we
have a happy emotion. Happy
 For example: If you looked up emotions are positive, so the word
the word smile in a thesaurus, smile has a positive connotation.
you would likely find the  When someone smirks at us, we
vocabulary word smirk listed have a sad or maybe a mad
as a synonym. Smile and emotion. Sad or mad emotions are
smirk have similar denotations negative, so the word smirk has a
but different connotations. negative connotation.
Denotation and Connotation
Other examples:
 Slim and Skinny both relate to being thin in size.
However, slim has a positive connotation while
skinny has a negative connotation.
 Slim reminds me of someone that is fit and trim.
While Skinny reminds me of someone that is
undernourished.

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