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- Word Parts
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noun |
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If something has importance, people care about it a lot, or they need to care about it. Something of importance has a lot of value or meaning. If something has no importance, people don't care about it or think about it. A thing that has no importance can be ignored or thrown away.
Clean water has importance because people cannot live without it.The doctor talked about the importance of a healthy diet.The factory has great importance for the town because many people have their jobs there.- similar words:
- consequence, emphasis, gravity, magnitude, significance
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meaning, point, value, worth |
The word importance
contains the following part:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
  More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, admittance, agency, arrogance, attendance, audience, buoyancy, conference, confidence, consequence, consistency, currency, deficiency, difference, disappearance, disturbance, emergency, frequency, importance, independence, occurrence, preference, presidency, residence, science, tendency
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