different between significance vs notability

English

Etymology

From Old French significance, from Latin significantia.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /s???n?f?k?ns/

Noun

significance (countable and uncountable, plural significances)

1. The extent to which something matters; importance

   As a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome of the trial.
2. Meaning.

   the significance of a gesture

Translations

See also

• Significance level (statistics).
• Statistical significance.

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