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Importance definition

ĭm-pôrtns
The quality or condition of being important; significance.
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Personal status; standing.

People of great importance.

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(obsolete) Meaning; import.
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(obsolete) Importunity.
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A matter or consequence.
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Import, or meaning.
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The definition of importance is the significance of a person, thing or idea.

An example of importance is bringing a swim suit to a pool party if you want to swim.

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Importunity.
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The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.
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The state or quality of being important; significance; consequence.
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Origin of importance

  • From Middle French importance, from Medieval Latin importantia

    From Wiktionary

Importance Sentence Examples

  • The importance of this cannot be overestimated.

  • We each understood the drop-dead importance of absolute privacy.

  • Breda is the next town in importance to the capital.

  • Nothing in life seemed to him of much importance, and under the influence of the depression that possessed him he valued neither his liberty nor his resolution to punish his wife.

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