different between significance vs prominence

English

From Old French significance, from Latin significantia.

significance (countable and uncountable, plural significances)

The extent to which something matters; importance
As a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome of the trial.
Meaning.
the significance of a gesture

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.

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