importance

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɔːtəns/
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• General-American: /ɪmˈpɔɹtəns/
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• General-American: [-ʔn̩s]
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• CMU ARPABET: IH2 M P AO1 R T AH0 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English importaunce, from Middle French importance, from Medieval Latin importantia. By surface analysis, import (“to be important”) + -ance.

116 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: rëndësi — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Arabic: أَهَمِّيَّة (ʔahammiyya) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Azerbaijani: əhəmiyyət — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Azerbaijani: önəm — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Bashkir: әһәмиәт (əhəmiət) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Basque: garrantzi — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Bulgarian: ва́жност (vážnost) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Catalan: importància — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Chinese Mandarin: 重要 (zhòngyào) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Czech: důležitost — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Danish: vigtighed — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Danish: betydning — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Dutch: belangrijkheid — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Dutch: belang — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Esperanto: graveco — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Finnish: tärkeys — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Finnish: painoarvo — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• French: importance — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Galician: importancia — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Georgian: მნიშვნელობა (mnišvneloba) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• German: Wichtigkeit — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• German: Belang — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Haitian Creole: enpòtans — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Hindi: महत्त्व (mahattva) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Hindi: ज़रूरत (zarūrat) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Hindi: अहमियत (ahmiyat) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Hungarian: fontosság — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Icelandic: mikilvægi — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Irish: tábhacht — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Italian: importanza — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Japanese: 重要性 (jyūyōsei) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Japanese: 大切さ (taisetsusa) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Khmer: សារៈសំខាន់ (sarsaamkhan) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Central Kurdish: گرنگی (gringî) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Northern Kurdish: giringî — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Latin: momentum — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Latvian: svarīgums — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Latvian: nozimība — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Macedonian: важност (važnost) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Malayalam: പ്രാധാന്യം (prādhānyaṁ) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Māori: hiranga — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Māori: mahurangi — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Occitan: importància — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Pashto: ارزښت (arzə́x̌t) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Persian: اهمیت (ahammiyyat) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Polish: ważność — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Polish: doniosłość — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Portuguese: importância — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Romanian: importanță — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Romanian: însemnătate — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Russian: ва́жность (vážnostʹ) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Russian: зна́чимость (znáčimostʹ) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Scottish Gaelic: cudrom — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Serbo-Croatian: ва́жно̄ст — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Serbo-Croatian: зна̏ча̄ј — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Serbo-Croatian: зна́че̄ње — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Serbo-Croatian: vážnōst — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Serbo-Croatian: znȁčāj — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Serbo-Croatian: znáčēnje — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Slovak: dôležitosť — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Spanish: importancia — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Swahili: umuhimu — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Swedish: vikt — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Swedish: betydelse — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Tamil: முக்கியத்துவம் (mukkiyattuvam) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Tibetan: གལ་གནད (gal gnad) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Tibetan: གཙིགས (gtsigs) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Tibetan: འགངས — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Turkish: önem — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Turkish: ehemmiyet — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Ukrainian: важли́вість (važlývistʹ) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Urdu: اہمیت — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Uzbek: ahamiyat — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Yiddish: וויכטיקייט (vikhtikeyt) — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Zulu: ukubaluleka — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Zulu: ubukhulu — quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
• Albanian: rëndësia — significance or prominence
• Bulgarian: значе́ние (značénie) — significance or prominence
• Chinese Mandarin: 重要 (zhòngyào) — significance or prominence
• Estonian: tähtsus — significance or prominence
• Finnish: tärkeys — significance or prominence
• German: Wichtigkeit — significance or prominence
• Greek: σημασία (simasía) — significance or prominence
• Hindi: प्रमुखता (pramukhtā) — significance or prominence
• Irish: tábhacht — significance or prominence
• Italian: importanza — significance or prominence
• Japanese: 重要性 (jyūyōsei) — significance or prominence
• Japanese: 大切さ (taisetsusa) — significance or prominence
• Central Kurdish: گرنگی (gringî) — significance or prominence
• Latvian: svarīgums — significance or prominence
• Latvian: nozimība — significance or prominence
• Malayalam: പ്രാധാന്യം (prādhānyaṁ) — significance or prominence
• Māori: hiranga — significance or prominence
• Persian: اهمیت (ahammiyyat) — significance or prominence
• Portuguese: importância — significance or prominence
• Romanian: importanță — significance or prominence
• Scottish Gaelic: cudrom — significance or prominence
• Serbo-Croatian: зна́че̄ње — significance or prominence
• Serbo-Croatian: зна̏ча̄ј — significance or prominence
• Serbo-Croatian: ва́жно̄ст — significance or prominence
• Serbo-Croatian: znáčēnje — significance or prominence
• Serbo-Croatian: znȁčāj — significance or prominence
• Serbo-Croatian: vážnōst — significance or prominence
• Swahili: umuhimu — significance or prominence
• Swedish: vikt — significance or prominence
• Tibetan: གལ་གནད (gal gnad) — significance or prominence
• Tibetan: གཙིགས (gtsigs) — significance or prominence
• Tibetan: འགངས — significance or prominence
• Yiddish: וויכטיקייט (vikhtikeyt) — significance or prominence
• Japanese: 名声 (meisei) — personal status or standing
• Latvian: svarīgums — personal status or standing
• Māori: mahurangi — personal status or standing
• Portuguese: status — personal status or standing
• Swahili: umuhimu — personal status or standing
• Swedish: ställning — personal status or standing
• Tibetan: གོ་འཕང (go 'phang) — personal status or standing