A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal...

Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal that was established in 1991 covering the field of English...

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...

distinct meanings in logic, philosophy, and common usage. See connotation. In semiotics, connotation arises when the denotative relationship between a signifier...

access data which would otherwise be inaccessible to them. In a positive connotation, though, hacking can also be utilized by legitimate figures in legal...

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...

anarchists use "libertarian socialist" to avoid anarchism's negative connotations and emphasize its connections with socialism. Anarchism retains a historical...

is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect toward someone or something. It...

an obsession with details. Micromanagement generally has a negative connotation, suggesting a lack of freedom and trust in the workplace, and an excessive...

roughly in ancient Greek to "destruction", but often with a positive connotation, as in the destruction required for and preceding renewal. Olethros as...

expected to be met with violence by those they are directed at. The connotation of a term and prevalence of its use as a pejorative or neutral descriptor...

The Shocker is a hand gesture with a sexual connotation. The index, middle, and little fingers are extended, while the ring finger is curled or bent down...

Connotations is a classical music composition for symphony orchestra written by American composer Aaron Copland. Commissioned by Leonard Bernstein in 1962...

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...

describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities. Some people consider...

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...

emotive connotations of these words are different. Firm carries a positive connotation, obstinate carries a neutral (or slightly negative) connotation, and...

overwhelming volume. Coined in the 2020s, the term has a pejorative connotation similar to "spam". AI slop has been variously defined as "digital clutter"...

used to describe a wide array of phenomena, sometimes in a pejorative connotation. Gentrification is a common and controversial topic in urban politics...

This is not to be confused with what is historically referred to as connotation, which more closely describes rigid definitions of words. Collocative...

more ambiguous connotations to Southern European immigrants and the working class, it is now used with a strong derogatory connotation against people...

sadomasochistic activities and safety rules. Further texts with sadomasochistic connotation appear worldwide during the following centuries on a regular basis. There...

Santo or diminutive Santino. Both names are diminutive forms with the connotation of "little saint." Santina Campana (1929–1950), Italian woman declared...

alternative name of 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...

and Russian influence. Such questions were affected by the positive connotations associated with the term Europe by its users. Such cultural considerations...

tramps. All three of these terms, however, generally have a derogatory connotation today. In 2004, the United Nations sector of Economic and Social Affairs...

List of age-related terms with negative connotations List of disability-related terms with negative connotations Category:Sex- and gender-related slurs...

failed to find any evidence for the story; Newton notes that the sexual connotation of tomcat as a womanizer did not exist in the 18th century. "Take a Break"...

planets; they prevent souls from leaving the material realm. The political connotation of their name reflects rejection of the governmental system, as flawed...

discovered particle, and so the buzz word "positronic" added a scientific connotation to the concept. Asimov's 1942 short story "Runaround" elaborates his...