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View synonyms for salience

salience

[ sey-lee-uhns, seyl-yuhns ]

noun

  1. the state or condition of being salient.
  2. a salient or projecting object, part, or feature.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of salience1

First recorded in 1830–40; salient, -ence

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Example Sentences

But even so, it's a really interesting thought, that a bigger increase could have greater political salience.

Some have disputed the salience of Vietnam for the Afghan strategy debate.

In it the chisel has merely reproduced the contours of the eyelids and the salience of the eyeball.

From this salience her small chin retreated delicately into her pink throat.

In the Khorsabad relief (Fig. 107) the salience of these horns is less marked.

Above a plinth with a gentle salience rises the altar itself, supported at each angle by the paw of a lion.

He gave them a slight salience over the façade and a polychromatic decoration.

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