connote

To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.

Verb

To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
- Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.
Coordinate Terms: denote evoke allude
To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
- Poverty connotes hunger.
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To express without overt reference; to imply.
To require as a logical predicate to consequence.

From Medieval Latin connotō (“signify beyond literal meaning”), from com- (“together”), + notō (“mark”).