different between prominence vs seriousness

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.

serious +? -ness

seriousness (countable and uncountable, plural seriousnesses)

The state or quality of being serious.
- July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[2]
  Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.

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