A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation. A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regard to its pleasing or displeasing emotional connection.

What is personal connotation?

Connotation refers to the emotional implications and associations that a word may carry, in contrast to its denotative (or literal) meanings. ... If you get seasick, however, the word may connote only discomfort to you; your personal connotation is negative.

What does the word connotation meaning?

1a : something suggested by a word or thing : implication the connotations of comfort that surrounded that old chair. b : the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes. 2 : the signification of something …