importance
/ĭm-pôr′tns/
noun
- The quality or condition of being important; significance.
- Personal status; standing. people of great importance.
- (Obsolete) Meaning; import.
Cambridge Dictionary
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IMPORTANCE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
2 weeks ago - IMPORTANCE meaning: 1. the quality of being important: 2. the quality of being important: 3. the quality of being…. Learn more.
Merriam-Webster
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1 week ago - The meaning of IMPORTANCE is the quality or state of being important : consequence. How to use importance in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Importance.
Wikipedia
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3 weeks ago - Importance is a property of entities that matter or make a difference. For example, World War II was an important event and Albert Einstein was an important person because of how they affected the world. There are disagreements in the academic literature about what type of difference is required.
property of things that make a difference
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3 weeks ago - Importance, consequence, significance, moment all signify something valuable, influential, or worthy of note. Importance is the most general of these, assigning exceptional or notable value or influence to a person or thing: the importance of ...
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Importance definition: The quality or condition of being important; significance.
Collins Dictionary
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IMPORTANCE definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
Importance means having influence, power, or status.
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Longman
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importance | meaning of importance in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE
importance meaning, definition, what is importance: the quality of being important: Learn more.
Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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Word Originearly 16th cent.: from French, from medieval Latin importantia, from important- ‘being of consequence’, from the verb importare ‘bring in’ (in medieval Latin ‘imply, mean, be of consequence’), from in- ‘in’ + portare ‘carry’.
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Importance - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
"the quality of having consequence," c. 1500, from French importance or directly from… See origin and meaning of importance.
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What is another word for importance? | Importance Synonyms - WordHippo Thesaurus
Synonyms for importance include significance, momentousness, import, consequence, note, noteworthiness, substance, value, seriousness and graveness. Find more similar words at wordhippo.com!
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Importance is the state of being greatly significant. If you're invited to your cousin's wedding and your friend's circus-themed birthday party on the same day, you'll have to decide which event has more importance to you.
Merriam-Webster
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IMPORTANCE Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
4 weeks ago - While all these words mean "a quality or aspect having great worth or significance," importance implies a value judgment of the superior worth or influence of something or someone.
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the quality or condition of being important.... See the full definition
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r/askphilosophy on Reddit: Definition of importance
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Hi!
I once heard about a definition of importance, which goes as follows:
A person is important, if a lot of important persons think she is important. An object is important, if a lot of important persons think it is important.
So it works in a google-page-rank type of fashion.
Does anyone know what the name of this concept is or who came up with it?
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In philosophy, as in every other academic field, there are two ways we define things. The first way is by checking the dictionary. This is how we come up with definitions for the vast majority of terms in philosophy and other academic fields - if you read a philosophy paper or a science paper, most of the words are going to just mean whatever it is the dictionary says they mean. The second way we define things is via stipulation: we say "by 'action' I mean something an agent does that is intentional under some description" or "by 'carrot' we mean anything in the genus and species Daucus carota" or whatever. We can stipulate whatever definition we want, although in practice you wouldn't stipulate something like "by 'horse' I mean Darth Vader" because this wouldn't be helpful. So, the project you've got in the OP, which is coming up with a definition of importance, isn't really a philosophical question. Either you're doing the first thing, in which case you're asking the dictionary question and you're right or wrong according to dictionary standards rather than philosophical standards, or you're doing the second thing and you can't be right or wrong, you're just stipulating a definition. I've never heard of a philosopher do either things for importance - the first is just trivial and the second doesn't strike me as very interesting. If someone has provided the definition of importance you've given here, it may be that they were engaged in the first task, or perhaps they were engaged in the second. In the first case they weren't doing philosophy and in the second case I doubt they were doing philosophy.
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Unfortunately that argument falls apart pretty quickly. I'm important because these important people think I'm important. Ok, why are they important? Because these other important people think they are. Ok, and what about those important people, why are they important? And it goes on and on, until you run out of "important" people on the planet. That system of thinking requires that somewhere, there's someone (or someones) who simple ARE important... as a fact, without anyone else thinking they are. Can you find such a person without providing a new definition for importance?
Oxford English Dictionary
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importance, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
The earliest known use of the noun importance is in the Middle English period (1150—1500).
Wiktionary
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importance - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.
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Is the word 'importance' still commonly used, or has it been replaced by 'important'? If it has been replaced, when did this change occur? - Quora
They are different words and cannot replace each other/ “importance” is a noun. Such as “The importance of the project requires a professional leader.” “important” is an adjective.
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To see why an email was marked as important, hover over the importance marker .
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Importance - Definition & Meaning
the importance (of a decision): the significance, the influence, the prominence (of a decision) noun