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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:
- Availability, salience and vividness, concepts in social psychology
- Incentive salience, a motivational "wanting" attribute given by the brain
- Mortality salience, a product of the terror management theory in social psychology
- Salience (language), the property of being noticeable or important
- Salience (neuroscience), the perceptual quality by which an observable thing stands out relative to its environment
- Social salience, in social psychology, a set of reasons which draw an observer's attention toward a particular object
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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.
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.
The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About
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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
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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