"prominence" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: standing - social or financial or professional status or reputation
subtypes:
- glare, limelight, public eye, spotlight - a focus of public attention
- salience, saliency, strikingness - the state of being salient
is a type of: importance - the quality of being important and worthy of note
is a type of: projection - any solid convex shape that juts out from something
subtypes:
- 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)
same as: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, protrusion, protuberance, swelling