importance
The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.
Other meanings
significance or prominence.
personal status or standing.
Related words
- nonimportance
- unimportance
- place importance on
- self-importance
Example sentences
Word history
From Medieval Latin "importantia".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “importance” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.