01 n. The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
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1.
The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
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2.
a meaning implied but not explicitly denoted by some word or expression, which may be understood in addition to the explicit primary meaning.
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3.
the full set of necessary properties possessed by all the objects within the extension of a term; the intensional meaning of a term, which determines the objects to which the term applies; the intension of a term.(Logic)
Syn.
intension.