meaningful
In the scientific age the intrinsic meaningfulness of the natural world is lost.
A sense of personal responsibility gives children their feeling of meaningfulness.
The usefulness and meaningfulness of this information in a dictionary for ordinary users is not immediately apparent.
Atef was trying to explain the significance and meaningfulness of the stories.
They believe in the meaningfulness of every word of the book.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Importance - general words
all that matters
centre of gravity
cornerstone
criticality
focus
grandness
import
meaning
overfocus
pertinence
pre-eminence
precedence
salience
supereminence
supremacy
transcendence
urgency
weight
weightage
worth

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Meaning & significance

Examples of meaningfulness

meaningfulness
This implies that the apparent meaningfulness of language must be an illusion and language must be meaningless.
Describing these degrees of meaningfulness with the model of rules as having whole categories and the language of incomplete rule is less satisfac18.
There is something brute about this conclusion which threatens to trivialise one's subject matter and seems capable of draining its meaningfulness at a single stroke.
I am talking about the affective and phenomenological meaningfulness of sounds over and above words.
Indeed, the logical positivists regarded this definition as a paradigmatic application of their empiricist criterion of meaningfulness.
However, the coded data were not systematically subcategorized regarding meaningfulness.
The latter analysis requires us to accept the meaningfulness of the left-right scale as a measure of preference.
Employment is often the medium by which we strive to achieve purposefulness and meaningfulness.
However, the inclusion of a word in a biology-dictionary term was found to be too limiting of a criterion for biological meaningfulness.
It is the very meaningfulness of this distinction between indeterminism in principle and indeterminism in practice that chaos theoreticians challenge today.
Because the objects are inherently autonomous, simply taking hold of them counts as an act of profound meaningfulness.
Rarely theorized explicitly, its meaningfulness is even more rarely tested.
This observation helps establish the meaningfulness of the similarity ratings.
Questions of meaningfulness or propriety are more appropriate.
It undercuts the very meaningfulness of the rock performance and places it in question.
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