significance.

1. Importance or consequence within a relevant context.

2. Meaning or implication carried by something.

3. A statistical assessment of how incompatible observations are with a specified null model under a test.

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Words that belong together

• historical significance
• practical significance

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Historical significance depended on the event’s consequences rather than its dramatic appearance.

Practical significance was examined alongside the size and uncertainty of the estimate.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: criterion analysis, relative importance, potential and actual distinction, evidence interpretation. Disciplines: academic writing, institutional analysis, research and conceptual explanation. Commonness: moderately common.