implicature

[ im-pli-kuh-cher ]
/ ˈɪm plɪ kə tʃər /

noun Philosophy, Linguistics.

potential inference that is not logical entailment.
Compare conversational implicature.

Origin of implicature

implicate + -ure

Words nearby implicature

implementation, implicate, implication, implicative, implicatory, implicature, implicit, implicit bias, implicit differentiation, implicit function, implicit function theorem

British Dictionary definitions for implicature

implicature
/ (ɪmˈplɪkətʃə) /

noun logic philosophy

a proposition inferred from the circumstances of utterances of another proposition rather than from its literal meaning, as when an academic referee writes the candidate's handwriting is excellent to convey that he has nothing relevant to commend
the relation between the uttered and the inferred statement