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importance

[ im-pawr-tns ]

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noun

the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
Synonyms: , ,
important position or standing; personal or social consequence.
consequential air or manner:
an air of bustling importance.
Obsolete. an important matter.
Obsolete. importunity.
Obsolete. import or meaning.

importance

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noun

the state of being important; significance
social status; standing; esteem
a man of importance
obsolete.
1. meaning or signification
2. an important matter
3. importunity

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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of importance¹

First recorded in 1495–1505; Medieval Latin importantia; important ( def ), -ance ( def )

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Synonym Study

Importance, consequence, significance, moment all signify something valuable, influential, or worthy of note. Importance is the most general of these, assigning exceptional or notable value or influence to a person or thing: the importance of Einstein's discoveries. Consequence may suggest outstanding personal quality or position, or it may suggest importance because of results to be produced: a woman of consequence in world affairs; an event of great consequence for our future. Significance can be used interchangeably with importance or consequence, but it carries also the implication of importance that is not readily or immediately recognized: The significance of the discovery only became clear years later. Moment, on the other hand, almost always refers to immediately apparent, self-evident importance: a change of great moment for the nation's political system.

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The office also said the two leaders had "agreed on the importance of Canada and the United States working together – as independent, sovereign nations – for their mutual betterment".

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An outlier in the Japanese classic car space as a prominent Black influencer, Young acknowledges the importance of that visibility.

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And the importance of that example is not lost on the players.

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More than fifty years ago, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black also recognized the importance of that freedom after a leak of the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and Washington Post.

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But campaigners have claimed the report was "half-baked" and the government was "blinkered" about the importance of pylons.

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