salience
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salience
n. remarkableness, state of being noticeable; prominence, conspicuousness; projection, protrusion; remarkable feature

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Salience
Salience or saliency may refer to:
  • Salience (neuroscience), the state or quality of an item that stands out relative to neighboring items
  • Salience (language), relative importance or prominence of a piece of a sign (semiotics and communication)
  • Salience, a term used in CLIPS (an expert systems programming language)

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salience

Noun
1. the state of being salient
(synonym) saliency, strikingness
(hypernym) prominence
(hyponym) conspicuousness


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Salience
(n.)
The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion.
  
 
(n.)
The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
  

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salience
Synonyms and related words:
arrantness, bas-relief, bellying, blatancy, boldness, bulging, conspicuousness, dignity, distinction, embossment, eminence, esteem, excrescence, excrescency, extrusion, fame, flagrance, flagrancy, gibbosity, gibbousness, glory, greatness, high relief, honor, low relief, memorability, notability, noteworthiness, noticeability, notoriety, notoriousness, obtrusiveness, ostentation, outstandingness, prestige, projection, prominence, pronouncedness, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, relief, remarkableness, renown, reputation, repute, saliency, salient, strikingness, strong relief, tuberosity, tuberousness
  

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