importance

Synonyms
1. moment, weight, concern. Importance, consequence, significance, moment all signify something valuable, influential, or worthy of note. Importance is the most general of these, assigning exceptional or notable value or influence to a person or thing: the importance of Einstein's discoveries. Consequence may suggest outstanding personal quality or position, or it may suggest importance because of results to be produced: a woman of consequence in world affairs; an event of great consequence for our future. Significance can be used interchangeably with importance or consequence, but it carries also the implication of importance that is not readily or immediately recognized: The significance of the discovery only became clear years later. Moment on the other hand, almost always refers to immediately apparent, self-evident importance: a change of great moment for the nation's political system.

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importance (ɪmˈpɔːt^əns)

—n
1.	the state of being important; significance
2.	social status; standing; esteem: a man of importance
3.	obsolete
	a. meaning or signification
	b. an important matter
	c. importunity

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Example sentences

He was overburdened not so much by the weight of his learning as by a mistaken

sense of its importance and authority.

Mounting evidence of our inner zombie at work has led some scientists to

downplay the importance of our aware selves.

But because of its importance and because it's so old it's had a much richer

life than many people.

Brands, in the modern sense of the word, were of importance only in champagne.

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"For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God."

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