Connotations

The new title has good connotations.

When a word is borrowed from another language, it frequently begins by having the same meaning; but with continued use in both languages, the now separate words may accrete disparate connotations.

Nowadays, due to the biased media, even little kids like Junior and Sally won’t accept feminism for its negative connotations. I think we need to tell men – and a growing percentage of women – that feminism is for everyone, and its values should apply to us all as people in a society that’s much freer than past societies.

There are two types of political correctness which are often conflated and which should be distinguished. There is the political correctness of language, which holds that certain groups should not be referred to by certain words with negative connotations (e.g., ethnic slurs), and there is the political correctness of ideas, which holds that certain ideas should not be discussed. The former is arguably commendable; the latter is harmful.

In the history of the United States, the Puritans were a group of people known for having an overly restrictive code of ethics, thus giving rise to negative connotations of someone being described as "puritanical".

For those who aren't aware, this spelling carries sexual connotations so be careful how you use it.

It is helpful to not only look up the definition of words within a dictionary, but to look up synonyms of a word in a thesaurus to understand different connotations.

Unlike the definitions that we find in our dictionaries, called denotations, there are different meanings associated with a word that give us more information about it. These are called the connotations of a word. The connotation can tell us if the word is more intense or less intense, if it is positive, pleasing to the speaker, or negative, something that is unpleasant to the speaker. Sometimes these associations can even be emotional or cultural.

"Sheygets" carries additional connotations of bravery, while "shiksa" carries additional connotations of beauty and femininity.