eminences
Distinguished persons collectively
Eminences is the plural of eminence—positions of distinction or prominence, or the people who hold them: the assembled eminences of the legal profession.
The word can also refer to elevated pieces of ground or anatomical projections.
As a title of respect (Your Eminence, His Eminence), it addresses or refers to Roman Catholic cardinals.
Persons of high rank
- luminariesDistinguished influential people
- notablesDistinguished persons collectively
- VIPsNotable people, abbreviated
- leadersThose with authority
authorities · figures · personages · grandees · magnates · worthies · celebrities · icons
Pope-electing prelates or finches
- bishopsHigh-ranking clergy members
- archbishopsHighest-ranking diocesan clergy
- prelatesSenior clergy with jurisdiction
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
pontiffs · monsignors · patriarchs · primates · metropolitans · Vatican · Holy See · episcopate
Parts extending beyond surface
- projectionsEstimates extending forward
- tuberclesSmall rounded protuberances
- processesSeries of actions
- ridgesNarrow elevated formations
bumps · nodes · condyles · bone structure · skeletal · articulations · surfaces · outgrowths
dignitaries
Persons of high rank
- luminariesDistinguished influential people
- notablesDistinguished persons collectively
- VIPsNotable people, abbreviated
leaders · authorities · figures · personages · grandees · magnates · worthies · celebrities · icons · elite
cardinals
Pope-electing prelates or finches
- bishopsHigh-ranking clergy members
- archbishopsHighest-ranking diocesan clergy
- prelatesSenior clergy with jurisdiction
clergy · pontiffs · monsignors · patriarchs · primates · metropolitans · Vatican · Holy See · episcopate · hierarchy
protuberances
Parts extending beyond surface
- projectionsEstimates extending forward
- tuberclesSmall rounded protuberances
- processesSeries of actions
ridges · bumps · nodes · condyles · bone structure · skeletal · articulations · surfaces · outgrowths · swellings
heights
Vertical measurements or summits
- peaksHighest points attained
- elevationsHeights above reference point
- summitsHighest elevations or conferences
ridges · rises · hills · knolls · mounds · bluffs · crests · outcrops · headlands · promontories
- Exemplarsexemplars, paragons, role models, ideals, gold standards
eminencesnobodies
Unimportant, unknown persons
nonentities · obscurities · inferiorities · mediocrities · unknowns
- gray eminenceHidden influential advisor
- grey eminenceHidden power broker
- His EminenceCardinal's honorific title