Prominence vs Achievement - What's the difference?
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The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
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*:“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.
The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment
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A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness
* [The exploits] of the ancient saints do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes. - (Isaac Barrow)
* The highest achievements of the human intellect. - (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
(heraldry) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.
(video games) An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.
Prominence is a related term of achievement.
As nouns the difference between prominence and achievement
is that prominence is the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent while achievement is the act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.prominence
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(wikipedia prominence)Noun
achievement
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement .}}
citation, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, […].}}