distinction

Noun

• a distinguishing difference
  • he learned the distinction between gold and lead
    

• a distinguishing quality
  • it has the distinction of being the cheapest restaurant in town
    

• high status importance owing to marked superiority
  • a scholar of great eminence
    

• a discrimination between things as different and distinct
  • it is necessary to make a distinction between love and infatuation
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  eminence , preeminence , note , differentiation