Prominence \Prom"i*nence\, Prominency \Prom"i*nen*cy\, n. [L.
prominentia: cf. F. prominence. See Prominent. ]
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1. The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out
from something; conspicuousness.
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2. That which is prominent; a protuberance.
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Solar prominences. (Astron.) See Solar Protuberances,
under Protuberance.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
prominence
n 1: the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent [ant:
obscurity]
2: relative importance
3: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
a form [syn: bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness,
jut, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]
WordNet (r) 2.0
143 Moby Thesaurus words for "prominence":
account, altitude, arete, arrantness, atmospheric visibility,
authority, bas-relief, bellying, blatancy, boldness, bulge,
bulging, ceiling, ceiling unlimited, celebrity, clarity, clearness,
consequence, conspicuity, conspicuousness, crag, crystal-clearness,
definiteness, definition, dignity, distinction, distinctness,
elevation, embossment, eminence, esteem, evidence, evidentness,
exaltation, excellence, excrescence, excrescency, extrusion, fame,
flagrance, flagrancy, gibbosity, gibbousness, glory, grandeur,
greatness, growth, hauteur, headland, height, heighth, heroism,
high mightiness, high relief, high visibility, highness, hill,
hillock, honor, hummock, illustriousness, importance, influence,
influentialness, kudos, loftiness, low relief, low visibility,
magnanimity, majesty, manifestness, mark, memorability, moment,
mount, name, nobility, notability, note, noteworthiness,
noticeability, notoriety, notoriousness, obtrusiveness,
obviousness, ostentation, outcrop, outcropping, outgrowth,
outstandingness, patentness, peak, percipi, perpendicular distance,
pinnacle, plainness, point, position, precedence, preeminence,
pressure, prestige, priority, projection, promontory,
pronouncedness, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, rank,
relief, remarkableness, renown, reputation, repute, ridge, rise,
salience, saliency, salient, seeing, seniority, significance,
spine, spur, standing, stature, strikingness, strong relief,
sublimity, supereminence, swelling, tallness, toploftiness, tor,
tuberosity, tuberousness, tumefaction, tumescence,
visibility unlimited, visibility zero, weight, weightiness
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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