Answer: C. The emotional associations of a word.
A connotation refers to the emotional associations of a word. A connotation tends to be labelled as "positive" or "negative" depending on the feelings it creates in the mind of the listener. A connotation is additional to the word's literal meaning, which is known as denotation.
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