Meaning & use
significance
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The quality of being important or having a particular meaning.
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Historians still debate the significance of the treaty for European politics.
She didn't grasp the significance of the discovery until years later.
A note on using this word
In statistics, "significance" has a specific technical meaning (unlikely to be due to chance), distinct from its everyday sense of general importance.
Words with a similar meaning
importancerelevance
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Words with an opposite meaning
insignificancetriviality
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