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Words have different types of meanings. What type of meaning is a word’s connotation?

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Connotation is something words have
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While connotation is a word's implied meaning or feeling, a denotation is a word's literal meaning; its definition. The two are directly connected; a word's connotation is essentially a positive or negative extension of its denotation.
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