MEANING
1. The quality of conveying a meaning that can be understood or interpreted.
2. The quality of being worthwhile, important, or personally significant in a particular context.
Use it for
asking whether an expression conveys understandable content; evaluating whether a measure has an interpretable meaning; distinguishing meaningful statements from empty verbal formsDistinguishes having interpretable meaning from having value or practical importance. Academic functions: Significance / Scope.
Words that belong together
- the meaningfulness of a statement
- semantic meaningfulness
- the meaningfulness of a measure
On the page
The critique questions the meaningfulness of the comparison when the categories are undefined.
The meaningfulness of the score depends on what its units are intended to represent.
The interviews explore the meaningfulness of work independently of salary.
Statistical significance alone does not establish the practical meaningfulness of an improvement.
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Opposite meanings
Word forms
- Base
- meaningfulness
Usage notes
Normally uncountable in both senses. Meaningfulness of + expression/activity/result. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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