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The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note. examples
significance or prominence. examples
personal status or standing. examples
Something of importance. quotations examples
It was incessant matter for amazement how these Olympians would talk over our heads - during meals, for instance - of this or the other social or political inanity, under the delusion that these pale phantasms of reality were among the importances of life.
1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 5