Signification

noun

1. Meaning or significance, especially of a word.
2. The action or process of signifying.

   "a theory of signification."

3. The act of signifying or making known; expression or indication of meaning in any manner.
4. A fact as signified; an established or intended meaning; the import of anything by which thought is or may be communicated; connotation, or logical comprehension; implication; sense: as, the signification of a word or a gesture; the significations of mathematical and other conventional signs.
5. Significance; occult meaning; a fact as inferable from a phenomenon of which it is said to be the signification.