different between reputation vs notability

English

Etymology

14c. "credit, good reputation", Latin reputationem (“consideration, thinking over”), noun of action from past participle stem of reputo (“reflect upon, reckon, count over”), from the prefix re- (“again”) + puto (“reckon, consider”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???pj??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

reputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations)

1. What somebody is known for.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "reputation": good, great, excellent, bad, stellar, tarnished, evil, damaged, dubious, spotless, terrible, ruined, horrible, lost, literary, corporate, global, personal, academic, scientific, posthumous, moral, artistic.

Synonyms

• name

Derived terms

• reputational

Related terms

• repute

Translations

Further reading

• reputation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• reputation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “repute” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• putoranite, tau protein

Middle French

Noun

reputation f (plural reputations)

1. reputation

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