Dictionary Definition
importance
Noun
1 the quality of being important and worthy of
note; "the importance of a well-balanced diet" [ant: unimportance]
2 a prominent status; "a person of importance"
[syn: grandness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
importance- The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
- Significance or prominence
- Personal status or standing
Translations
quality or condition of being important or
worthy of note
- Chinese: 重要
- Czech: důležitost
- Dutch: belangrijkheid , belang
- Finnish: tärkeys, painoarvo
- German: Wichtigkeit
- Kurdish:
significance or prominence
- Chinese: 重要
- Finnish: tärkeys
- German: Wichtigkeit
- Kurdish:
personal status or standing
- ttbc Telugu: ప్రాముఖ్యత (praamukhyata)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
account, ascendancy, authority, charisma, charm, clout, concern, consequence, conspicuousness,
control, credit, distinction, dominance, domination, effect, elevation, eminence, enchantment, esteem, exaltation, excellence, favor, force, good feeling, grandeur, gravity, greatness, high mightiness,
hold, import, incidental power,
influence, influentiality, influentialness,
insinuation,
leadership, leverage, loftiness, magnetism, magnitude, mark, mastery, matter, moment, momentousness, nobility, notability, note, noteworthiness, outstandingness,
personality,
persuasion, pith, position, potency, power, precedence, predominance, preponderance, pressure, prestige, priority, prominence, purchase, rank, reign, reputation, repute, rule, salience, say, seniority, seriousness, significance, signification, standing, stature, status, suasion, sublimity, substance, subtle influence,
suggestion, supereminence, supremacy, sway, upper hand, value, weight, weightiness, whip hand,
worth, worthiness