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"Significance" vs "Importance"



 
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"Significance" vs "Importance" #1 (permalink) Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:20 pm   "Significance" vs "Importance"
 

Hi

Could you please tell me the difference between:

1- What is the significance of this thing?
2- What is the importance of this thing?

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"Significance" vs "Importance" #2 (permalink) Thu Jul 27, 2006 15:00 pm   "Significance" vs "Importance"
 

Hi Tom

There often isn't much difference between significance and importance.

A difference that comes to mind is that sometimes the word "significance" is used to mean "meaning" or "implication".

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Importance/signiicance #3 (permalink) Thu Jul 27, 2006 15:20 pm   Importance/signiicance
 

Hi Tom,

To add further comment:

The importance of an event or an occasion is how worthwhile it is in the scheme of things.

The significance of an event or an occasion is the underlying meaning or interpretation of it.

I could refer these two words to the visits currently being undertaken in the Middle East by the American Secretary of State. The importance of her visits indicates the high value she puts on the necessity to do something to find a solution to the fighting. The significance of her visits is the interpretation put on them by the rest of the world or how the rest of the world sees them.

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Importance/signiicance #4 (permalink) Sun Nov 08, 2009 16:32 pm   Importance/signiicance
 

hi,i read the post but m still confused,

please give any simple exemplary sentence which help me to understand the difference b/w "importance and significance"
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