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distinction

How to sign: high status importance owing to marked superiority
"a scholar of great eminence";

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Similiar / Same: eminence, preeminence, note

Categories: high status

Within this category: king

distinction

How to sign: a discrimination between things as different and distinct
"it is necessary to make a distinction between love and infatuation";

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Similiar / Same: differentiation

Categories: discrimination, secernment

Within this category: contradistinction, hairsplitting, line

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