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Additional meaning or meanings carried by a word which exceed the obvious or literal definition. The most common usage is in metaphor.

Calling someone a ‘sloth’, instead of meaning that the person looks like a sloth, uses the connotation of that animal with its characteristic slow movement, thus the metaphor is employed to suggest that the person is also slow moving.

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