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eminence
English
Etymology
From Old French eminence, from Latin ?min?ntia (“prominence”, “protuberance”; “eminence”, “excellence”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m?n?ns/
Noun
eminence (countable and uncountable, plural eminences)
- Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.
- The quality or state of being eminent.
- Prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem.
- (geology) An elevated land area or a hill.
- (anatomy) A protuberance.
- (uncountable) A dark purple color.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:eminence.
Synonyms
- distinction
- prominence
- renown
- celebrity
Antonyms
- (someone of high rank, reputation or social status): obscurity
- (the quality or state of being eminent): mediocrity
Derived terms
- Eminence (your Eminence), title of honor for a Roman Catholic cardinal
Translations
Further reading
- Wikipedia article on Roman Catholic Church
- Shades of purple (Eminence) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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presence
English
Alternative forms
- præsence (archaic)
Etymology
Through Old French presence, from Latin praesentia (“a being present”), from praesentem. Displaced native Old English andweardnes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??z?ns/
- Hyphenation: pres?ence
Noun
presence (countable and uncountable, plural presences)
- The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
- The part of space within one's immediate vicinity.
- A quality of poise and effectiveness that enables a performer to achieve a close relationship with their audience.
- A quality that sets an individual out from others; a quality that makes them noticed and/or admired even if they are not speaking or performing.
- Something (as a spirit) felt or believed to be present.
- A company's business activity in a particular market. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (archaic) An assembly of great persons.
- The state of being closely focused on the here and now, not distracted by irrelevant thoughts. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (audio) Synonym of room tone
Antonyms
- absence
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
presence (third-person singular simple present presences, present participle presencing, simple past and past participle presenced)
- (philosophy, transitive, intransitive) To make or become present.
- 1985, David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of K?kai and D?gen, page 59,
- Within a completely neutral horizon, the primordial continuous stream of experience is presenced without interruption. As this time, the past and future have no meaning apart from the now in which they are presenced.
- 1998, H. Peter Steeves, Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry, page 59,
- Just as the bread and butter can be presenced as more than just the bread and the butter, so baking a loaf of bread can be more than just the baking, the baker, and the bread.
- 2005, James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry, Stanford University Press, ?ISBN (paperback), page 118,
- From the overtaxing of the regime's paranoiac classifications and monitoring of the social field, Heidegger was to await in vain the presencing of that which is present, the revelation of the Being of beings in its precedence to governmental control.
- 1985, David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of K?kai and D?gen, page 59,
Related terms
- present
- presentation
- omnipresence
Further reading
- presence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “presence”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- presence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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