The phrase "a specific connotation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the particular meaning or association that a word or phrase carries beyond its literal definition.
Example: "The word 'home' has a specific connotation of warmth and safety, which differs from its mere definition as a physical structure."
Alternatives: "a particular implication" or "a distinct meaning".
Today, memes have a specific connotation in our digital environment.
According to the common belief, among the transcendentals (being, thing, one, something, true, good) being was the primitive notion, from which all the others stemmed by adding a specific connotation in relation to something else, or by adding some new determination.
- If Palin's cross-hairs map and "reload" comment don't bother you, how about when she spoke at a Tea Party event in February 2010 and said: "America is ready for another revolution" (which, given the context, carries a specific connotation and certainly subtly condones violent reprisals against the government).
It must be stated initially that contracting has a quite specific connotation in the Mexican health system.
First, we should ask ourselves whether pacts (as a whole, regardless of the number of local and regional signing parts) had a specific political connotation, whether they were implemented mostly by the right-centre or left-centre local administrations.
Physical pain is mostly considered as a part of a broader condition of suffering, thus accepting the concept of "total pain" as the specific connotation of the terminal patient.
Secondly, we should point out the difficulties surrounding the specific connotation of the term 'human dignity'.
In order to explore the general context and the specific connotation of Chinese face, this paper focuses on comparing the difference between reflective model and formative model when measuring the construct of Chinese face.
On the other side, linguistic anthropologist Sarah Shulist took issue with the guise of impartiality that she said the dictionary had adopted in using a term with specific connotations.
Some have argued that the removal was "an understandable, if clunky, reaction to a symbol that has specific connotations", others that it's "an ultra-rare case of political correctness actually genuinely gone mad".
In some areas of education research, for example, misconceptions has specific connotations regarding the hypothesized structure of student knowledge (a topic addressed further in this essay).
