connote
verbUK /kəˈnəʊt/ · US /kəˈnoʊt/
Etymology From Medieval Latin connotō (“signify beyond literal meaning”), from com- (“together”), + notō (“mark”).
1
To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
- Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.
2
To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
- Poverty connotes hunger.
- Doctors should be reminded that absence of evidence does not connote a mental illness …2025 March 25, Shreyas Teegala, Simar Bajaj, For Some Women With Serious Physical Ailments, Mental Illness Has Become a Scapegoat Diagnosis:
3
To express without overt reference; to imply.
4
To require as a logical predicate to consequence.
- Derived terms
- connotatory, misconnote
- Related terms
- connotation, connotative, connotatively, connotive, denote