notability

Noun

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

   Synonyms: noteworthiness

2. A 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...
3. Locally 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...
   • 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,...
4. A standard used to determine whether a subject merits its own article.