prominence

/ˈprɑmənəns/

/ˈprɒmɪnɪnts/

Other forms: prominences

Prominence has to do with importance. If a band becomes famous, they've come into prominence.

Prominence is a type of importance: if you put a statue in the middle of a room, you're giving it a place of prominence. In movies, music, and sports, the most successful people have great prominence — they're prominent or famous. Anything that juts out or sticks out has prominence. Whether prominence comes from being widely known or just being hard to miss, you can't really ignore anything or anybody that has achieved prominence.

Definitions of prominence

1. noun

   the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent
   antonyms:

   obscurity

   an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known

   types:

   glare, limelight, public eye, spotlight

   a focus of public attention

   salience, saliency, strikingness

   the state of being significant

   conspicuousness

   the state of being conspicuous

   profile, visibility

   degree of exposure to public notice

   type of:

   standing

   social or financial or professional status or reputation
2. noun

   relative importance
   type of:

   importance

   the quality of being important and worthy of note
3. noun

   something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
   “he stood on the rocky prominence”

   synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, protrusion, protuberance, swelling

   types:

   frontal eminence

   either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit

   occipital protuberance

   prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone

   belly

   a part that bulges deeply

   caput

   a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure

   mogul

   a bump on a ski slope

   nub, nubble

   a small lump or protuberance

   snag

   a sharp protuberance

   wart

   any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)

   type of:

   projection

   any solid convex shape that juts out from something