importance

importance
importance [im pôrt′'ns]
n.
[MFr < OIt importanza]
1. the state or quality of being important; significance; consequence
2. Obs.
a) a matter or consequence
b) import, or meaning
c) importunity
SYN.- IMPORTANCE, the broadest of these terms, implies greatness of worth, meaning, influence, etc. [news of importance]; CONSEQUENCE, often interchangeable with the preceding, more specifically suggests importance with regard to outcome or result [a disagreement of no consequence]; MOMENT expresses this same idea of importance in effect with somewhat stronger force [affairs of great moment]; WEIGHT implies an estimation of the relative importance of something [his word carries great weight with us ]; SIGNIFICANCE implies an importance or momentousness because of a special meaning that may or may not be immediately apparent [an event of significance]

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