importance

n.

1. The quality or condition of being important; significance.
2. Personal status; standing.
3. Obsolete. An important matter.
4. Obsolete. Meaning; import.
5. Obsolete. Importunity.

SYNONYMS  importance, consequence, moment, significance, import, weight. These nouns refer to the state or quality of being significant, influential, or worthy of note or esteem. Importance is the most general term: the importance of a proper diet. Consequence is especially applicable to persons or things of notable rank or position (scholars of consequence) and to what is important because of its possible outcome, result, or effect (tax laws of consequence to investors). Moment implies importance or consequence that is readily apparent: making decisions of great moment. Significance and import refer to the quality of something, often not obvious, that gives it special meaning or value: an event of real significance; works of great social import. Weight suggests a personal evaluation or judgment of importance: “The popular faction at Rome . . . was led by men of weight” (J.A. Froude).

noun

The quality or state of being important: concern, concernment, consequence, import, moment, significance, significancy, weight, weightiness. See important/unimportant.

n

Definition: significance, weight
Antonyms: insignificance

n

Definition: standing
Antonyms: insignificance, unimportance

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IN BRIEF: The state of having much meaning or value.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. — Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, moralist and writer.

Quotes:

"Physicists know what's important, but they don't know what is true. Mathematicians know what's true, but they don't know what is important." - Source Unknown

"The simple lack of her is more to me than others presence." - Edward Thomas

"Much Ado About Nothing," - William Shakespeare

"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection." - Bertrand Russell

"Each shot is important." - Gary Player

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." - Doug Larson

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - vigtighed, betydning

Nederlands (Dutch)
belangrijkheid

Français (French)
n. - importance

Deutsch (German)
n. - Bedeutung, Gewicht

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - σημασία, σπουδαιότητα, βαρύτητα, αξία

Italiano (Italian)
importanza

Português (Portuguese)
n. - importância (f), posição (f) importante

Русский (Russian)
важность, значение

Español (Spanish)
n. - importancia, consideración, valor

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - betydelse, vikt

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
重要, 重大, 重要的地位, 重要性, 自大, 傲慢

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 重要, 重大, 重要的地位, 重要性, 自大, 傲慢

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 중요성, 중요한 지위, 오만함

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 重要性, 重要な地位, 尊大さ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) أهميه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ערך, חשיבות‬

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