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say it: suhg-NIF-i-kuhns
significance is a noun meaning "the quality of being significant". It is pronounced /səɡˈnɪfɪkəns/ — suhg-NIF-i-kuhns. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the quality of being significant
“do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power”
a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
“the significance of his remark became clear only later”
“the expectation was spread both by word and by implication”
the message that is intended or expressed or signified
“what is the meaning of this sentence”
“the significance of a red traffic light”
“the signification of Chinese characters”
“the import of his announcement was ambiguous”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for significance come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.