importance
NounUS[im-pawr-tuhns]/ˌɪmˈpɔrtəns/3 syllables
Synonyms:
grandness
Open English WordNet
Noun (2)
- the quality of being important and worthy of note“the importance of a well-balanced diet”Opposite unimportanceType of valueKinds significance, greatness, weight, prominence, magnitude, account, urgency, essentiality, momentousness, big dealAttribute of important, unimportant
- a prominent status“a person of importance”Synonyms: grandnessType of standingKinds emphasis, primacy
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Translations
Noun significance, being important
- Spanish
- importancia
- French
- importance
- German
- Wichtigkeit
- Italian
- importanza
- Portuguese
- importância
- Turkish
- önem
- Russian
- ва́жность vážnostʹ
- Arabic
- أَهَمِّيَّة ʔahammiyya
- Chinese
- 重要性 zhòngyàoxìng
- Japanese
- 重要性 jūyōsei
26 more languages
- Dutch
- belangrijkheid
- Polish
- ważność
- Swedish
- vikt
- Korean
- 중요성 jung'yoseong
- Indonesian
- kepentingan
- Vietnamese
- tầm quan trọng
- Hungarian
- fontosság
- Portuguese (PT)
- importância
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 重要 zhòngyào
- Albanian
- rëndësi
- Catalan
- importància
- Czech
- důležitost
- Danish
- vigtighed
- Esperanto
- graveco
- Finnish
- tärkeys
- Georgian
- მნიშვნელობა mnišvneloba
- Icelandic
- mikilvægi
- Latvian
- svarīgums
- Lithuanian
- svarba
- Norwegian
- viktighet
- Romanian
- importanță
- Scottish Gaelic
- cudrom
- Serbo-Croatian
- važnost
- Slovenian
- pomembnost
- Swahili
- umuhimu
- Yiddish
- וויכטיקייט vikhtikeyt
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Im·por′tance noun
Origin: F. importance. See Important.
1. The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance.
Thy own importance know, Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.— Alexander Pope
2. Subject; matter. obsolete
Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature.— William Shakespeare
3. Import; meaning; significance. obsolete
The wisest beholder could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow.— William Shakespeare
4. Importunity; solicitation. obsolete
At our importance hither is he come.— William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54