Implication Definition
ĭmplĭ-kāshən
implications
noun
implications
An implicating or being implicated.
Webster's New World
An implying or being implied.
Webster's New World
Something implied, from which an inference may be drawn.
Webster's New World
A formal relationship between two propositions such that if the first is true then the second is necessarily or logically true.
Webster's New World
An inference.
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Synonyms:
- conditional relation
- logical implication
- significance
- import
- entailment
- deduction
- signification
- suggestion
- ramification
- presumption
- overtone
- insinuation
- inference
- entanglement
- connotation
Antonyms:
- explicit statement
Other Word Forms of Implication
Noun
Singular:
implication
Plural:
implicationsOrigin of Implication
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From Middle French implication, from Latin implicationem (accusative of implicatio).
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