significance
significance Lexical Profile
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• noun
The quality of being worthy of attention; importance or consequence.
"Historians debated the historical significance of the newly discovered letters."
The meaning to be found in words, events, or symbols; the implied or underlying sense.
"She failed to grasp the true significance of his carefully chosen words."
In statistics, the extent to which a result deviates from what would be expected by random chance alone.
"The clinical trial failed to reach statistical significance due to the small sample size."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Old French significance or directly from Latin significantia ('meaning, energy, force'), a noun of quality from significans, the present participle of significare ('to signify, indicate'), from signum ('mark, sign') + facere ('to make').