importance

importance
noun
  1. [mass noun]the state or fact of being of great significance or value
    重要性,重要价值
    the importance of democracy.
    民主的重要性。
    [count noun]the relative importances of the external and internal causes.
    内因外因的相对重要性。
常用词组
full of one's own importance
  1. having a very high opinion of oneself; self-important
    狂妄自大的,自视甚高的
语源
  1. early 16th cent.: from French, from medieval Latin importantia, from important- 'being of consequence', from the verb importare (see import)
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