significance

English

Etymology

InheritedfromMiddle Englishsignificaunce,fromMiddle Frenchsignificance,fromOld Frenchsignificance,fromLatinsignificantia.Doubletofsignifiance.

Pronunciation

• (UK,US)IPA^(key):/sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/

• Audio(US):

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Noun

significance(countableanduncountable,pluralsignificances)

1. Theextentto which somethingmatters;importance

   As a juror your opinion is of greatsignificancefor the outcome of the trial.

   • 1992,Rudolf M[athias]Schuster,The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian,volume V, Chicago, Ill.:Field Museum of Natural History,→ISBN,page 5:

     Of moresignificancein the nature of branch development; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.

2. Meaning.

   thesignificanceof a gesture

Derived terms

• act of independent significance
• Tukey's honest significance test

Translations

extent to which something matters

• Arabic:مَعْنَى(ar)(maʕnā)
• Armenian:նշանակություն(hy)(nšanakutʻyun)
• Bashkir:әһәмиәт(əhəmiət)
• Bulgarian:значение(bg)n(značenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Trọng yếu tính(zh)(zhòngyàoxìng)

• Czech:význam(cs)m
• Danish:betydning(da)
• Dutch:betekenis(nl),belang(nl)f,importantie(nl)f
• Finnish:merkitys(fi),tärkeys(fi)
• French:importance(fr)f(1),signification(fr)f(2)
• Galician:significación(gl)f
• German:Bedeutung(de)f,Signifikanz(de)f(1)
• Hungarian:jelentőség(hu),fontosság(hu)
• Irish:tábhachtf
• Italian:significanza(it)f,significatività(it),importanza(it)
• Japanese:Trọng yếu tính(ja)(jūyōsei)
• Khmer:សារៈសំខាន់(sarsaamkhan)
• Korean:중요성(ko)(jung'yoseong)
• Macedonian:зна́чењеn(znáčenje),ва́жностf(vážnost)
• Malayalam:പ്രാധാന്യം(prādhānyaṁ)
• Portuguese:significância(pt)f
• Romanian:semnificanțămorn,importanță(ro)f,semnificativitatef
• Russian:значе́ние(ru)n(značénije)
• Scottish Gaelic:brìghf,ciallf,cudthromm
• Serbo-Croatian:znáčēnje(sh)n,znȁčāj(sh)m,vážnōst(sh)f
• Spanish:significado(es)m,significación(es),calado(es),importancia(es)f
• Swedish:betydelse(sv),vikt(sv)c,signifikans(sv)c
• Thai:ความสำคัญ(th)(kwaam-sǎm-kan)
• Turkish:önem(tr)
• Welsh:pwysigrwydd(cy)

meaning

• Armenian:իմաստ(hy)(imast)
• Bulgarian:смисъл(bg)m(smisǎl)
• Catalan:significat(ca)m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Ý vị(ji³mei⁶)

  Hokkien:Ý vị(zh-min-nan)(ì-bī)

  Mandarin:Ý vị(zh)(yìwèi),Ý nghĩa／Ý nghĩa(zh)(yìyì)

• Danish:betydning(da)
• Dutch:betekenis(nl)f
• Esperanto:signifo
• Finnish:tarkoitus(fi)
• French:signification(fr)f
• German:Bedeutung(de)f
• Greek:νόημα(el)n(nóima)
• Hungarian:jelentés(hu),értelem(hu)
• Japanese:Ý nghĩa(ja)(いぎ, igi),Ý vị(ja)(いみ, imi)
• Korean:의미( ý vị )(ko)(uimi)
• Macedonian:сми́слаf(smísla)
• Middle English:signifiaunce,significaunce
• Portuguese:significado(pt)m
• Russian:значе́ние(ru)n(značénije),смысл(ru)m(smysl)
• Scottish Gaelic:brìghf
• Spanish:significado(es)m
• Swedish:betydelse(sv)c
• Thai:ความหมาย(th)(kwaam-mǎai)
• Tocharian B:ārth
• Turkish:anlam(tr),mana(tr)
• Vietnamese:ý nghĩa(vi)(Ý nghĩa(vi))

See also

• Significance level(statistics).
• Statistical significance.

Middle English

Noun

significance

1. Alternative form ofsignificaunce