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importance

[im-pawr-tns]

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noun

the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.

important position or standing; personal or social consequence.

consequential air or manner: an air of bustling importance.

Obsolete. an important matter.

Obsolete. importunity.

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Obsolete. import or meaning.

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Origin:
1495–1505; < Medieval Latin importantia. See important, -ance

Related forms

pre·im·por·tance, noun

un·im·por·tance, noun

Can be confused: importance, impotence (see synonym note at the current entry).

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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Neither do letters that spend paragraph after paragraph describing your dissertation and its importance to the field.

The rising importance of the world's new giants will not only boost growth.

The finding highlights the importance of females in understanding evolution of primate society, say scientists.

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Neither do letters that spend paragraph after paragraph describing your dissertation and its importance to the field.

The rising importance of the world's new giants will not only boost growth.

The finding highlights the importance of females in understanding evolution of primate society, say scientists.

Their decision, of course, hinged on the importance of the paper.

It seems that the concern over what footage was played when is perhaps exagerated in importance.

There has been a lot of press about the importance of quality teachers lately.

Look around and it's impossible to miss the importance of social interactions to human society.

Image gains importance in admissions season, and this one's a doozy.

Hence the importance of the second response: a concerted effort to reduce the implicit state guarantees.

Have students discuss the importance of paleoanthropology.

Anyone who is diabetic-or knows a diabetic-recognizes the importance of insulin.

Saving these sifikas will take education and tourism to demonstrate their importance.

US teens fully understand the importance of math and science education.

Because it makes a bold statement about the importance of moving education into the future.

They not only recognise the importance of profits and incentives.

Have students discuss why they feel differently about the importance of places.

In one scheme, members of a field were asked to evaluate the importance of various measures.

In this trailer, experts discuss the importance of sharks to the health of coral reefs.

The importance of a healthy transmission cannot be emphasized enough.

It is also important to staff health- and psychological-services offices with people who are aware of the importance of sleep.

The third lesson concerns the importance of a medium-term plan.

As the director of a zoo it's your job to teach people about the importance of biodiversity.

The external physical purity or impurity is not of tremendous importance.

Your work also stresses the importance of oral traditions.

It was about the importance of standardization itself.

My experience leads me to appreciate the importance of both the rational and the irrational.

However, they are right on two matters, and the importance of these points would be difficult to exaggerate.

In this lesson, students will learn about the importance of wetlands.

He insisted on the economic effect and importance of this digging.

The opportunity to speak his mind, to live in freedom, was of paramount importance to him.

Jobs can't even get behind causes that would seem to carry deep personal meaning, let alone lasting social importance.

Research by faculty is of much lesser importance than teaching ability.

The finding highlights the importance of the rapidly dwindling habitats to reef communities.

The environment of infancy may have attached importance to singing as a behavior, as was true of my origins.

The turmoil surrounding his accession highlights the importance of order in the palace.

We embrace the importance of allowing our viewers full access to everything that is said in our movies.

In this lesson, students will learn about the importance of ocean conservation.

New study confirms importance of early behavioral intervention in treating the disorder.

If others did visit, he says, they either came to pillage or didn't recognize the site's importance.

But this does show the importance of something not working.

Have students think about the importance of indigenous groups to the project.

Archaeologists often talk about the importance of trash-you can learn a lot about a culture by looking at what it threw away.

Here's the essential fact: science has no importance or value until it enters the outside world.

Introduce students to the importance of observations both in daily life and in scientific research.

Experts are hailing the find as of great importance because it will help them to learn how stars were born in the early universe.

Hawking gave a small speech in which he emphasized the importance of freedom in science.

The only western maple with wood of commercial importance.

The continuing importance of coal presents a dilemma.

Few people studied them, and their importance was generally unrecognized.

Studies of perception show the importance of being upright.

So the expedition also made it a goal to publicize the importance of blue holes and the threats they face.

It is something people in retail look at a lot because it's of enormous economic importance.

Reminding low achievers of the importance of a task may backfire.

Targets in the round-the-clock bombings are chosen in current order of importance.

We often downplay the importance of ceremony and ritual in university life.

Yet the importance of plants' ability to store carbon in making the planet habitable is still not widely appreciated.

The incident drew attention to the importance of monitoring hydrogen levels and keeping sub batteries ventilated during charging.

Countries, states, and communities have examined the importance of culture's economic.

E-mail, blogging, social networking and tweeting were expected to surge in importance and perhaps to decide the race.

Parker specializes in the study of the canopy, the importance of which in forest science has only recently been recognized.

Secondly, you cannot underestimate the importance of authenticity when it comes to collecting art.

Some of them receive the prize because of the importance of the compounds they have.

The importance of economic size for prosperity depends crucially upon how open a country's economy is.

Artificial lighting long ago reduced the importance of the moon to farmers and gardeners, but the name has stuck.

Though an amplified voice indicates the machine's importance in the history of science, it rarely draws a crowd.

After slowly coming to appreciate the importance of symbiotic.

Sustainability enthusiasts may be overlooking the importance of the.

It has left him with a burning sense of the importance of management.

New smart phone apps highlight the importance of good sleep.

Academe isn't much different from any other industry when it comes to understanding the importance of recruiting new employees.

My opponent has asked for evidence of the critical importance of mathematics and science education in innovation.

The situation offers a case that underlines the importance of fires to the overall health of forest ecosystems.

The importance of attachment-a sound emotional relationship-between a child and a parent has long been well understood.

All of those tensions underscore the importance of information.

One of the reasons why the modern financial system was supposedly stronger than before was the reduced importance of the banks.

Talk to your children's teachers and your state politicians about the importance of geography.

The importance of flexibility cannot be overstated, particularly for older athletes.

The importance of this event is difficult to overstate.

The growing importance of regional parties has made coalition government the norm at federal level.

The process first requires the identification of anthropological questions of importance.

These tantalizing results highlight the importance of genetic interactions with the environment in the development of asthma.

Honey is trivial compared with the importance of pollination.

But it's equally unattractive in any place that values the importance of a single human being.

The council tracks students collectively from that region because of its geopolitical importance.

Their status would be raised by the increasing importance of theoretical knowledge and the codification of ideas:.

It was only thanks to a discussion with a human-childbirth researcher that the importance of their observations came to.

Harrison offers three reasons, in ascending order of importance to ourselves.

We are still continuing to run ads that emphasize the importance of not dropping calls.

Ask students to write a three-paragraph essay that explains fossils' importance.

For our ancestors the importance of survival far exceeded the importance of matching colors or reading the same sheet of music.

What those critics didn't count on, though, was the importance of usability.

These evolutions will now be the basis of promotion, and will be of slightly higher importance than publications.

One could better argue the importance of unremitting suspicion.

Ask students to consider the difficulty of weighing the plant's importance against the needs of local residents.

It also illustrates the importance of being able to think in magnitudes of scale in both size and time.

Novell is surprisingly absent given the importance of networking to.

These correlations demonstrate the importance of learning to strategically allocate our attention.

Husseini is mindful of the importance of agriculture.

Anyone who has tried to replace a punctured tire or fix a leaky faucet knows the importance of having the right tool for the job.

The importance is on the fact that humanity needs more and more energy.

Importance depends on a number of factors, including links and how old the story is.

To get to my point, salary doesn't always indicate the importance of the work being performed.

But the new data provide a glimpse at the importance of other sources, too.

She also discussed her midlife career change and the importance of reviving this lost art.

It's also in book three that players will begin to see the importance of small changes in position.

Such trends are especially troubling given the increased importance of higher education to the nation.

The research reported in this article is of incredibly great importance for one aspect that is not even mentioned in the article.

It can be a spiritual connection between your body and something of importance in your life.

In fact, people everywhere were waking up to the importance of protecting their planet.

The idea that what happens in infancy might be of overriding importance in later development was also questionable.

Creekmore had a bit of bluster and definite sense of his own importance.

Scientists acknowledged the importance of conditioning, but cognition is no longer considered a matter of mere mechanics.

Let's get the research questions out of the way first, and then get back to the potential importance of the study.

And this returns us to the importance of the court surface.

Is our mission to transmit to our children the importance of drinking pure water and eating natural food without dyes.

So far we've read about dorm kitchens and the importance of kitchen boundaries.

Updating any one of them is a big decision for the importance of both position in the country, security and energy.

The importance of those phrases will become clear as the show nears its finale.

Subsequent research by others has confirmed the importance of immune molecules in keeping the brain functioning smoothly.

At this early stage, the importance of viral parasites to human health or the environment is unknown.

Freud tried to reduce the importance of guilt conciousness in his patience.

The discovery must be compared in importance with the.

In any case, utility in a professional setting carries no importance to the average user.

To think only in terms of genes is to be blind to the importance of social links for the human species.

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World English Dictionary

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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