notability

plural notabilities

1. uncountableThe quality or state of being notable or eminent.

   Synonyms: noteworthiness

2. countableA notable or eminent person or thing.

   Lesser notabilities have indeed utilized and built upon the opportunities created for filling in the gaps within the socioeconomic and political maps of the popular community.

   2012, Mohamed Fahmy Menza, Patronage Politics in Egypt: The National Democratic Party and Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo

3. countableuncountableLocally eminent people; the bourgeoisie or upper middle class

   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.

   2002, Jonathan B. Knudsen, Justus Möser and the German Enlightenment, →ISBN, page 54

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   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.

   2014, Keith David Watenpaugh, Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 104

4. uncountablewiki jargonA standard used to determine whether a subject merits its own article.