Connotative Terminology

The words and phrases everyone uses every day carry both intellectual and emotional meaning, reflecting the intellectual-emotional duality of the human mind. However, as a writer, you have access only to the intellectual meanings of words and phrases with ordinary dictionaries, thesauruses, etc..

New connotative language reference products will give you access, for the first time ever, to the emotional meanings as well. For every familiar denotative term (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, synonym, etc.), there is a connotative counterpart.

Here are some examples:

DENOTATIVE TERMS
(Intellectual Meaning)

CONNOTATIVE TERMS
(Emotional Meaning)

Dictionary. An alphabetical list or database of words and their denotative or objective meanings.

Connotationary™. An alphabetical list or database of words and their connotative/ emotional meanings.

Synonym. A word that has the same or nearly the same objective meaning as another word (e.g., bucket and pail).

Connonym™. A word having the same or nearly the same connotative/emotional feel as another word (e.g., pumpkin and Volkswagen Beetle.)

Thesaurus. An alphabetical or systemized list or database of synonyms.

Connosaurus™. An alphabetical or systemized list or database of connonyms

Grammar Checker. A software program that analyzes the grammatical content of written work.

Connotation Checker™. A software program that analyzes the connotative/emotional content of written work.