prominence

 
Pronunciation: /ˈprɒmɪnəns/

noun

[mass noun]
  • 1the state of being important, famous, or noticeable: she came to prominence as an artist in the 1960s [in singular]: the commission gave the case a prominence which it might otherwise have escaped
  • 2the fact or state of projecting from something: radiographs showed enlargement of the right heart with prominence of the pulmonary outflow tract
  • [count noun] a thing that projects from something, such as a projecting feature of the landscape or a protuberance on a part of the body: the steep, rocky prominence resembled a snow-capped mountain
  • [count noun] Astronomy a stream of incandescent gas projecting above the sun’s chromosphere.

Derivatives

prominency

noun

Origin:

late 16th century (denoting something that juts out): from obsolete French, from Latin prominentia 'jutting out', from the verb prominere (see prominent)