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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Significance

/səg-nĭf'-ĭk-əns/ · Sig·nif·i·cance · IPA /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/
01 n. The quality or state of being significant.
  1. 1.
    The quality or state of being significant.
  2. 2.
    That which is signified; meaning; import; as, the significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression.
  3. 3.
    Importance; moment; weight; consequence.
    “With this brain I must work, in order to give significancy and value to the few facts which I possess.” De Quincey.