Synonyms for Prominence
ˈprɒm ə nənspromi·nence

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1. prominencenoun

   the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent

   Synonyms:
   bump, extrusion, hump, excrescence, protuberance, protrusion, swelling, gibbousness, jut, gibbosity, bulge

   Antonyms:
   obscurity

2. prominencenoun

   relative importance

   Synonyms:
   bump, extrusion, hump, excrescence, protuberance, protrusion, swelling, gibbousness, jut, gibbosity, bulge

   Antonyms:
   obscurity

3. bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescencenoun

   something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

   "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"

   Synonyms:
   swelling, lump, expulsion, protrusion, prominence, gibbousness, jut, jutting, intumescence, extrusion, bulge, projection, protuberance, gibbosity, intumescency, bump, blow, puffiness, hump, excrescence

   Antonyms:
   obscurity

Matched Categories

1. • Importance
   • Projection
   • Standing

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1. prominencenoun

   Synonyms:
   protuberance, projection, bulge, process

2. prominencenoun

   Synonyms:
   conspicuousness, eminence, distinction, celebrity

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1. List of paraphrases for "prominence":

   salience, importance, pre-eminence, visibility, significance, predominance

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1. Patrick Murray:

   Gillibrand simply lacks the star power or national prominence that would lead to extensive free media time.

2. Kim Rogers:

   'A seismic shift' for secretary of state racesThe 2020 election represented a high-water mark for prominence of the secretary of state position. The sitting President was calling out secretaries by name, including some Republicans, and urging his supporters to put pressure on these offices to refuse to certify elections in states he had lost.Its absolutely getting worse: Secretaries of state targeted by Trump election lies live in fear for their safety and are desperate for protectionIn several states, the secretary of state is appointed by the governor, but the position is an elected office in a majority of states, albeit one that voters haven't usually prioritized. Both Republican and Democratic campaigns raised tiny sums compared with other statewide counterparts, and few aired ads on television.That has shifted since the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, reflected in fundraising by top secretary of state candidates and the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State.An insurrection makes a difference. The aftermath of the 2020 election forced more Americans to recognize that our country is at a crossroads and our democracy is in peril, i think across the board, all of those factors culminated in people recognizing that secretaries of state are one of our last lines of defense. And people are paying attention now.

3. Nancy Pelosi:

   Within that bill, the Energy and Commerce Committee has something called INFORM… legislation that would require those who are selling online especially is to establish their legitimacy as to where these products came from. Because what people do is they steal things and they sell them online, the Judiciary Committee has a bill, Save Shopping, which addresses the same problem in of a different way in terms of holding platforms accountable and those selling things accountable for the prominence of those goods.

4. David Graff:

   We want to be very careful about the type of information that we highlight in the search feature given its prominence. Given the concern around elections and elections information, we want to be particularly conservative here.

5. Senate Judiciary:

   Not only is Ms. Gupta the first woman of color to ever be nominated to the position, she is the first civil rights attorney ever to be nominated to the position, the third-ranking official in the Justice Department, that's shocking, really. We never have had a former civil rights attorney serving in such a prominent serving in such a position of prominence at Justice Department. In that sense alone, Ms. Gupta would bring a long overdue perspective to our federal law enforcement agency.