different between prominence vs gravity

English

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.

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

gravity (countable and uncountable, plural gravities)

The state or condition of having weight; weight; heaviness.
The state or condition of being grave; seriousness.
(music) The lowness of a note.
(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.
(in casual discussion, also) Gravitation, universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other (gravity and gravitation are often used interchangeably).
(physics) Specific gravity.

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

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