prominence

Nouns

  • (n) the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent
  • (n) relative importance
  • (n) 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
    bulge, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, protrusion, protuberance, bump, swelling,

Synonyms

bulge excrescence extrusion gibbosity gibbousness hump jut protrusion protuberance bump swelling

Antonyms

obscurity

Words of close approximity

prominent