Culmination vs Eminence - What's the difference?
culmination | eminence |
(astronomy) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.
someone of high rank, reputation or social station
the quality or state of being eminent
prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem
(geology) an elevated land area or a hill
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
(anatomy) a protuberance
As nouns the difference between culmination and eminence
is that culmination is (astronomy) the attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit while eminence is importance, notoriety.culmination
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* See alsoeminence
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(en noun)- From the summit of an eminence I had already had a distant view of Osbaldistone Hall, a large and antiquated edifice, peeping out from a Druidical grove of huge oaks [...].