Difference between Annotation and Connotation

What is the difference between Annotation and Connotation?

Annotation as a noun is a critical or explanatory commentary or analysis while Connotation as a noun is a meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. a characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.

Annotation

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a critical or explanatory commentary or analysis a comment added to a text the process of writing such comment or commentary metadata added to a document or program information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases

Connotation

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.A technical term in logic used by J. S. Mill and later logicians to refer to the attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, and contrasted with denotation.

We hope you now know whether to use Annotation or Connotation in your sentence.

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