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From notable + -ity; alternatively, may be analyzed as note + -ability.
notability (countable and uncountable, plural notabilities)
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being notable or eminent.
- Synonym: noteworthiness
- (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
2014, Keith David Watenpaugh, Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class[2], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 104:
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.