Prestige vs Eminence - What's the difference?
prestige | eminence |
(obsolete) Delusion; illusion; trick.
* :
The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
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 prestige and eminence
is that prestige is while eminence is importance, notoriety.prestige
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(-)- The sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture.
- Oxford has a university of very high prestige .
Derived terms
* covert prestige * overt prestige * prestigiousExternal links
* * * ----eminence
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Noun
(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 [...].
