notability

noun

Etymology: From notable + -ity; alternatively, may be analyzed as note + -ability.

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

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.”

   “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.”

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