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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prominence \Prom"i*nence\, Prominency \Prom"i*nen*cy\, noun [L. prominentia: cf. F. prominence. See {Prominent}. ]
1. The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out from something; conspicuousness.
2. That which is prominent; a protuberance.
{Solar prominences}. (Astron.) See {Solar Protuberances}, under {Protuberance}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
prominence
noun
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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