It is false that the term connotation is used to describe the multiple meanings that can be attributed to a single word, and that denotation refers to the idea that context may be used to lend emotional weight to a word. It is quite the opposite, actually.
Denotation shows literal or dictionary meanings of a word.
Connotation refers to a feeling suggested by a word, i.e some emotion that is implied rather than stated directly.
So it is the other way round:
The term denotation is used to describe the multiple meanings that can be attributed to a single word; connotation refers to the idea that context may be used to lend emotional weight to a word.
