prominence
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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
its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious
bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky
prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed";
"the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: {bulge},
{bump}, {hump}, {swelling}, {gibbosity}, {gibbousness},
{jut}, {prominence}, {protuberance}, {protrusion},
{extrusion}, {excrescence}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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