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Importance vs Priority - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between importance and priority

is that importance is the quality or condition of being important or worthy of note while priority is an item's relative importance.

importance

English

Noun

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  • The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
  • significance or prominence
  • personal status or standing

    • priority

    English

    (wikipedia priority)

    Noun

    (priorities)
  • An item's relative importance.
    • He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
  • A goal of a person or an organisation.
    • She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
  • (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
  • *
    • Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority ."
  • (obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.
  • * 1608 , , I. i. 244:
    • Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.

    Derived terms

    * aperture priority * prioritise / prioritize * prioritization * shutter priority * top priority