different between distinguishment vs prominence

English

distinguish +? -ment.

distinguishment (countable and uncountable, plural distinguishments)

A distinction; observation of difference.
- 1865, John Grote, Exploratio philosophica: rough notes on modern intellectual science, Part 1, University of Cambridge, page 50:
  "We notice what we notice and make it a thing distinguishing it from what else is within our view, partly because, doubtless, it is of such or such a size and shape: but we require more impulse to the notice and distinguishment than this furnishes."
- 1833; Samuel Lewis Southard, Joseph Hendrickson, Thomas L. Shotwell, Edward Hopper; Argument of Samuel L. Southard: in the case of Stacy Decow and Joseph Hendrickson versus Thomas L. Shotwell, page 157:
  "And first, in your doctrines of God, whom you say is to be known and believed on, as in the distinguishment of three persons...

distinguishment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

From obsolete French prominence (compare proéminence), from Latin prominentia.

prominence (countable and uncountable, plural prominences)

The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
- “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.
(topography) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.

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