Synonyms for prominence
ˈprɒm ə nənspromi·nence

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1. prominencenoun

   the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent

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

   Antonyms:
   obscurity

2. prominencenoun

   relative importance

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

   Antonyms:
   obscurity

3. bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescencenoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   swelling, lump, expulsion, protrusion, gibbousness, jut, jutting, intumescence, extrusion, bulge, projection, protuberance, gibbosity, intumescency, bump, blow, puffiness, hump, excrescence

   Antonyms:
   obscurity

Matched Categories

1. • Importance
   • Projection
   • Standing

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1. prominencenoun

   Synonyms:
   protuberance, projection, bulge, process

2. prominencenoun

   Synonyms:
   conspicuousness, eminence, distinction, celebrity

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1. List of paraphrases for "prominence":

   salience, importance, pre-eminence, visibility, significance, predominance

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How to use prominence in a sentence?

1. Barnabas Piper:

   It is at a level of intensity that is new, this is not something you see tweeted about on a regular basis. But after the attack in Charleston and the prominence that the flag took, it feels as if it is now being rubbed in our faces.

2. Colin Angle:

   Maintaining a clean home has taken on greater prominence during this pandemic.

3. David Graff:

   We want to be very careful about the type of information that we highlight in the search feature given its prominence. Given the concern around elections and elections information, we want to be particularly conservative here.

4. Senate Judiciary:

   Not only is Ms. Gupta the first woman of color to ever be nominated to the position, she is the first civil rights attorney ever to be nominated to the position, the third-ranking official in the Justice Department, that's shocking, really. We never have had a former civil rights attorney serving in such a prominent serving in such a position of prominence at Justice Department. In that sense alone, Ms. Gupta would bring a long overdue perspective to our federal law enforcement agency.

5. Nancy Pelosi:

   Within that bill, the Energy and Commerce Committee has something called INFORM… legislation that would require those who are selling online especially is to establish their legitimacy as to where these products came from. Because what people do is they steal things and they sell them online, the Judiciary Committee has a bill, Save Shopping, which addresses the same problem in of a different way in terms of holding platforms accountable and those selling things accountable for the prominence of those goods.