[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

prominence \prom"inence\, prominency \prom"inency\, n. l.
   prominentia: cf. f. prominence. see prominent. 
   1913 webster
   1. the quality or state of being prominent; a standing out
      from something; conspicuousness.
      1913 webster

   2. that which is prominent; a protuberance.
      1913 webster

   solar prominences. astron. see solar protuberances,
      under protuberance.
      1913 webster
see also:
prominent solar prominences solar protuberances protuberance 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

prominence
     n 1: the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent ant:
          obscurity
     2: relative importance
     3: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
        a form syn: bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness,
         jut, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
see also:
obscurity bulge bump hump gibbosity gibbousness 
jut protuberance protrusion extrusion excrescence 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

143 moby thesaurus words for "prominence":
   account, altitude, arete, arrantness, atmospheric visibility,
   authority, bas-relief, bellying, blatancy, boldness, bulge,
   bulging, ceiling, ceiling unlimited, celebrity, clarity, clearness,
   consequence, conspicuity, conspicuousness, crag, crystal-clearness,
   definiteness, definition, dignity, distinction, distinctness,
   elevation, embossment, eminence, esteem, evidence, evidentness,
   exaltation, excellence, excrescence, excrescency, extrusion, fame,
   flagrance, flagrancy, gibbosity, gibbousness, glory, grandeur,
   greatness, growth, hauteur, headland, height, heighth, heroism,
   high mightiness, high relief, high visibility, highness, hill,
   hillock, honor, hummock, illustriousness, importance, influence,
   influentialness, kudos, loftiness, low relief, low visibility,
   magnanimity, majesty, manifestness, mark, memorability, moment,
   mount, name, nobility, notability, note, noteworthiness,
   noticeability, notoriety, notoriousness, obtrusiveness,
   obviousness, ostentation, outcrop, outcropping, outgrowth,
   outstandingness, patentness, peak, percipi, perpendicular distance,
   pinnacle, plainness, point, position, precedence, preeminence,
   pressure, prestige, priority, projection, promontory,
   pronouncedness, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, rank,
   relief, remarkableness, renown, reputation, repute, ridge, rise,
   salience, saliency, salient, seeing, seniority, significance,
   spine, spur, standing, stature, strikingness, strong relief,
   sublimity, supereminence, swelling, tallness, toploftiness, tor,
   tuberosity, tuberousness, tumefaction, tumescence,
   visibility unlimited, visibility zero, weight, weightiness

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