different between notability vs gravity

English

Etymology

note +? -ability

Noun

notability (countable and uncountable, plural notabilities)

1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being notable or eminent.
2. (countable) A notable or eminent person or thing.
3. Locally eminent people; the bourgeoisie or upper middle class
   • 2002 Jonathan B. Knudsen, Justus Möser and the German Enlightenment p.54 ?ISBN

     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.

   • 2014 Keith David Watenpaugh, Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class p.104 (Princeton University Press) ?ISBN

     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.

Translations

Anagrams

• bitonality

English

Etymology

16th century, learned borrowing from Latin gravit?s (“weight”) (compare French gravité), from gravis (“heavy”). Doublet of gravitas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???æv?ti/
• Hyphenation: grav?i?ty

Noun

gravity (countable and uncountable, plural gravities)

1. The state or condition of having weight; weight; heaviness.
2. The state or condition of being grave; seriousness.

3. (music) The lowness of a note.
4. (physics) Force on Earth's surface, of the attraction by the Earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the Earth's rotation, resulting from gravitation.
5. (in casual discussion, also) Gravitation, universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other (gravity and gravitation are often used interchangeably).
6. (physics) Specific gravity.

Synonyms

• weightfulness
• The state or condition of being grave: graveness, seriousness

Derived terms

• anti-gravity
• centre of gravity
• gravitation
• graviton
• gravity-assist
• gravity drag
• gravity turn
• gravity wave
• microgravity
• quantum gravity
• zero gravity

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “gravity”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

• Gravitation in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)