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English

Etymology

From Middle English importaunce, from Middle French importance, from Medieval Latin importantia. By surface analysis, import (“to be important”) +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

(horse–hoarse merger)
- (Received Pronunciation, Northern England, Wales) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔːtəns/
- (Standard Southern British, Australia) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpoːtəns/
- (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpoɹtəns/, [-ʔn̩s]
  - Audio (US): (file)
- (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əmˈpoːtəns/

(without the horse–hoarse merger)
- (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpoɾtəns/
- (Manchester, Wales without the merger) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpoːtəns/
- (Eastern New England) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɒtəns/
- (early 20th century General American, near-obsolete) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔɹtəns/

Noun

importance (countable and uncountable, plural importances)

The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.
Synonyms: substance, (formal, often in negative statements) consequence
- 1985, Robert Kraus, The Practice of Echocardiography‎^[1], page 143:
  The recording speed is also of importance in detecting flutters of high frequency.
significance or prominence.
personal status or standing.
Something of importance.
- 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 5:
  It was incessant matter for amazement how these Olympians would talk over our heads - during meals, for instance - of this or the other social or political inanity, under the delusion that these pale phantasms of reality were among the importances of life.

Derived terms

Translations

quality or condition of being important or worthy of note

Albanian: rëndësi (sq)
Arabic: أَهَمِّيَّة f (ʔahammiyya)
Azerbaijani: əhəmiyyət (az), önəm
Bashkir: әһәмиәт (ähämiät)
Basque: garrantzi (eu)
Bulgarian: ва́жност (bg) f (vážnost)
Catalan: importància (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 重要 (zh) (zhòngyào)
Czech: důležitost (cs) f
Danish: vigtighed c, betydning (da) c
Dutch: belangrijkheid (nl) f, belang (nl) n
Esperanto: graveco
Finnish: tärkeys (fi), painoarvo (fi)
French: importance (fr) f
Galician: importancia (gl) f
Georgian: მნიშვნელობა (mnišvneloba)
German: Wichtigkeit (de) f, Belang (de) m
Haitian Creole: enpòtans
Hindi: महत्त्व m (mahattva), ज़रूरत f (zarūrat), अहमियत f (ahmiyat)
Hungarian: fontosság (hu)
Icelandic: mikilvægi n
Irish: tábhacht f
Italian: importanza (it) f
Japanese: 重要性 (ja) (jyūyōsei), 大切さ (taisetsusa)
Khmer: សារៈសំខាន់ (km) (sarsaamkhan)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: گرنگی (ckb) (gringî)

Northern Kurdish: giringî (ku) f
Latin: momentum n
Latvian: svarīgums m, nozimība f
Macedonian: важност f (važnost)
Malayalam: പ്രാധാന്യം (prādhānyaṁ)
Māori: hiranga, mahurangi
Occitan: importància (oc) f
Pashto: ارزښت (ps) m (arzə́x̌t)
Persian: اهمیت (fa) (ahammiyyat)
Polish: ważność (pl) f, doniosłość (pl) f
Portuguese: importância (pt) f
Romanian: importanță (ro) f, însemnătate (ro) f
Russian: ва́жность (ru) (vážnostʹ), зна́чимость (ru) (znáčimostʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: cudrom m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ва́жно̄ст f, зна̏ча̄ј m, зна́че̄ње n

Latin: vážnōst (sh) f, znȁčāj (sh) m, znáčēnje (sh) n
Slovak: dôležitosť f
Spanish: importancia (es)
Swahili: umuhimu (sw)
Swedish: vikt (sv) c, betydelse (sv) c
Tamil: முக்கியத்துவம் (ta) (mukkiyattuvam)
Tibetan: གལ་གནད (gal gnad), གཙིགས (gtsigs), འགངས ('gangs)
Turkish: önem (tr), ehemmiyet (tr)
Ukrainian: важли́вість (uk) f (važlývistʹ)
Urdu: اہمیت
Uzbek: ahamiyat (uz)
Yiddish: וויכטיקייט f (vikhtikeyt)
Zulu: ukubaluleka class 15, ubukhulu class 14

significance or prominence

Albanian: rëndësia
Bulgarian: значе́ние (bg) n (značénie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 重要 (zh) (zhòngyào)
Estonian: tähtsus
Finnish: tärkeys (fi)
German: Wichtigkeit (de) f
Greek: σημασία (el) f (simasía)
Hindi: प्रमुखता f (pramukhtā)
Irish: tábhacht f
Italian: importanza (it) f
Japanese: 重要性 (ja) (jyūyōsei), 大切さ (taisetsusa)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: گرنگی (ckb) (gringî)
Latvian: svarīgums m, nozimība f
Malayalam: പ്രാധാന്യം (prādhānyaṁ)
Māori: hiranga
Persian: اهمیت (fa) (ahammiyyat)
Portuguese: importância (pt) f
Romanian: importanță (ro) f
Scottish Gaelic: cudrom m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: зна́че̄ње n, зна̏ча̄ј m, ва́жно̄ст f

Latin: znáčēnje (sh) n, znȁčāj (sh) m, vážnōst (sh) f
Swahili: umuhimu (sw)
Swedish: vikt (sv) c
Tibetan: གལ་གནད (gal gnad), གཙིགས (gtsigs), འགངས ('gangs)
Yiddish: וויכטיקייט f (vikhtikeyt)

personal status or standing

Japanese: 名声 (ja) (meisei)
Latvian: svarīgums m
Māori: mahurangi
Portuguese: status (pt) m
Swahili: umuhimu (sw)
Swedish: ställning (sv) c
Tibetan: གོ་འཕང (go 'phang)

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