In the first paragraph, she describes the labels she was tagged with, which have a negative connotation.
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Connotation
/ˌkɒnəˈteɪʃən/
Synonyms for "connotation" (112 found)
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Closest matches (23)
affective meaningallegoryallusionarcane meaningassociateassumptionbearingcolorationcoloringconsequencedenotationdrifteffectessenceextensionforce
Noun(7 words)
affective toneassociationsconnotingcontextual meaningcultural meaningemotional loadevaluative charge
Strong matches (33)
Noun(8 words)
Adjective(4 words)
implied meaning inferenceindirect meaninginner-city culturelinguistic signification
Verb(1 words)
Determiner(1 words)
most linguistic concept
Related words (56)
overtonepertinencepithpointpractical consequencepresumptionpresuppositionpurportrange of meaningreal meaningreferencereferentrelationrelevancescopesemantic clustersemantic fieldsensesignificancesignification
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significatumsignifiespan of meaningspiritstructural meaningsubsensesubsidiary sensesubstancesuggestionsumsum and substancesuppositionsymbolic meaningsymbolismtenortingetotality of associationstouchtransferred meaningunadorned meaningundercurrentundermeaningundertonevalue
Noun(11 words)
overtonessemantic effectsemanticssenssense of beingsensessignificationssignifyingsocial associationsundertonesword meaning
Adjective(1 words)
political import
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8 entriescultural connotationemotional connotationgender connotationnegative connotationpejorative connotationpolitical connotationpositive connotationregional connotation
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6 entriesconnotative meaningcultural connotationemotional connotationlinguistic connotationnegative connotationpositive connotation
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13 total sentences available.
For most Americans, "Allahu akbar" fails of the crucial connotation: "And you're not."
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Through both denotation and connotation, many Turkish names are weighty with symbolism. Before the Second World War, the European system of name-giving was adopted, and the people of Turkey chose new surnames for themselves from a list of names which had been created on the basis of etymology and semantics.
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Let's begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes — indeed, deletes — the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power.
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