Importance vs Merits - What's the difference?
importance | merits |
The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
significance or prominence
personal status or standing
Intrinsic advantages, as opposed to political or procedural advantages.
(legal) Substance, distinguished from form or procedure.
(merit)
As nouns the difference between importance and merits
is that importance is the quality or condition of being important or worthy of note while merits is plural of lang=en.As a verb merits is
third-person singular of merit.importance
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Noun
(-)merits
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(head)- I was the boss's pet project, but was rejected on the merits .
- The merits of the case favored the plaintiffs, but their procedural blunders set them back.