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notability

noun
/ˌnoʊ.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/US

Etymology

From notable + -ity; alternatively, may be analyzed as note + -ability.

  1. derived from notu — “t-use, profit, advantage, employment”
  2. derived from note — “benefit, profit, use, advantage”
  3. derived from notābilis — “noteworthy, extraordinary”
  4. derived from notable — “noteworthy”
  5. inherited from notable — “worthy of note, profitable, useful”
  6. inherited from notable
  7. suffixed as notability — “notable + -ity”

Definitions

  1. The quality or state of being notable or eminent.

  2. A notable or eminent person or thing.

    • Lesser notabilities have indeed utilized and built upon the opportunities created for filling in the gaps within the socioeconomic and political maps of the popular community.

  3. Locally eminent people

    Locally eminent people; the bourgeoisie or upper middle class

    • Just as the notability lived in its own social universe between the common citizenry and the aristocracy, so too did its intellectual universe express this complex mediation.
    • Such petitions were part of the role of the notability as understood at the time; a manifestation of their social hegemony was the obligation to speak for or represent the local community to the imperial center.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A standard used to determine whether a subject merits its own article.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for notability. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA