distinction vs prestige

distinction

noun
  • Specifically, a feature that causes someone or something to stand out as being better; a mark of honour, rank, eminence or excellence; being distinguished. 

  • That which distinguishes; a single occurrence of a determining factor or feature, the fact of being divided; separation, discrimination. 

  • The act of distinguishing, discriminating; discrimination. 

prestige

noun
  • The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded. 

adj
  • Regarded as relatively prestigious; often, considered the standard language or language variety, or a part of such a variety. 

verb
  • To start over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward. 

How often have the words distinction and prestige occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )