What is the difference between denotation and connotation?

Answer 1

Denotation is the specific meaning of a word. The denotation of a word is the dictionary definition.  

 

Denotation Example: Ambition 

Ambition dictionary meaning which states a desire to achieve a goal. 

 

 

Connotation refers to the additional meaning or feeling that is suggested by a word. When you use the word connotation in your writing, you are commenting on how a specific word or phrase is typically understood. Connotative words are a type of word that aims to convey more than just its literal definition. 

 

Connotation Example: Ambition 

An earnest desire for achievement or distinction, such as power, honor, fame or wealth.



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Answer 2

Denotation is the literal meaning of a word, the logical, "just the facts," used by police officers, scientists and bureacrats; connotation is the emotional, poetic, musical associations of a word, representing the right hemisphere or the creative realm of the brain, the artistic or patheti realm of Coleridge or Keats.

Answer 3

Denotation is the literal dictionary definition of a word, while connotation refers to the emotional and cultural associations that the word evokes.