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Excellence vs Prominence - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between excellence and prominence

is that excellence is the quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue while prominence is the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.

As a proper noun Excellence

is a title of honor or respect; more common in the form Excellency.

excellence

English

(wikipedia excellence)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
  • Something in which one excels.
  • An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.

    • Synonyms

    * superiority * pre-eminence * perfection * worth * goodness * purity * greatness

    See also

    * par excellence ----

    prominence

    English

    (wikipedia prominence)

    Noun

  • The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
  • *
  • *:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
  • Relative importance.
  • A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
  • (lb) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.