notabilities

Noun

notability (countable and uncountable, plural notabilities)

1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being notable or eminent.

   Synonyms:

   noteworthiness

2. (countable) 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 Politics in Egypt: The National Democratic Party and Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo
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 and the German Enlightenment, →ISBN, page 54
4. (uncountable, wiki jargon) A standard used to determine whether a subject merits its own article.