Eminentia, æ, f. g. Cicer.Excellencie: passing: standing aboue other.Eminentiæ in pictura. Ci. The standing vp of things in painting.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ēmĭnentĭa, ae, f. [eminens], a standing out, projecting; concr., a prominence, protuberance.I.Lit., Cic. N. D. 1, 38, 174 (with soliditas); App. Flor. no. 18, p. 359; and in plur., Plin. 37, 10, 63, 174. —Hence, in painting, the prominent, i. e. light parts, Cic. Ac. 2, 7, 20 (opp. umbrae). —II.Trop., excellence: quaedam formarum, Gell. 5, 11, 9: senectutis suae, Vulg. 2 Macc. 6, 19.—Hence, per eminentiam, i. q. kat) e)coxh/n, preëminently, par excellence, Ulp. Fragm. 11, 3: reperiet, eminentiam cujusque operis artissimis temporum claustris circumdatam, the highest ability in an art, Vell. 1, 17, 4.