notability
English
Etymology
Noun
notability (countable and uncountable, plural notabilities)
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being notable or eminent.
- (countable) A notable or eminent person or thing.
- 2012, Mohamed Fahmy Menza, Patronage Politics in Egypt: The National Democratic Party and Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo:
- 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.
- 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.
- 2002 Jonathan B. Knudsen, Justus Möser and the German Enlightenment p.54 →ISBN
Translations
quality of being notable
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notable person or thing
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