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Explain the differences between connotation and denotation and how it might impact communication?

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Connotation is an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

Denotation is the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests:

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