What does salience mean?
Definitions for salience
ˈseɪ li əns, ˈseɪl yənssalience
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Princeton's WordNet
salience, saliency, strikingnessnoun
the state of being salient
Wiktionary
saliencenoun
The condition of being salient.
saliencenoun
A highlight; perceptual prominence, or likelihood of being noticed.
saliencenoun
Relative importance based on context.
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salience
Salience refers to the quality or state of being prominent, noticeable, important, or significant. It is often used to describe something that stands out or attracts attention, either visually, intellectually, or in terms of relevance or interest.
Webster Dictionary
Saliencenoun
the quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting
Saliencenoun
the quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion
Etymology: [See Salient.]
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Salience
Salience is the state or condition of being prominent. The Oxford English Dictionary defines salience as "most noticeable or important." The concept is discussed in communication, semiotics, linguistics, sociology, psychology, and political science. It has been studied with respect to interpersonal communication, persuasion, politics, and its influence on mass media.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of salience in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of salience in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of salience in a Sentence
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon:
We are managing to foil plans by the organizations, the terrorist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, to carry out attacks. If it were up to them, there would be suicide bombings and gun attacks here every day, the fact that we are succeeding lends salience to the attempted stabbing or car-ramming attacks. We will also prevail over this phenomenon, I say, but this is a process that takes time. Statistically, we see a waning of this.
National Security Adviser Susan Rice:
There have been times - and this is one of them - where anti-trade sentiment has attained some salience in our domestic politics as well as in other countries, there's been an evolution over the decades in the nature of trade agreements and in the caliber of trade agreements. And I'm not sure that that has fully been absorbed in the public mindset or the political discourse.
With the salience of wildfires in the West, sea-level rise in the Gulf Coast and Florida and the way that weather affects farmers, people are beginning to see the effects of climate change, i do think that makes a difference to voters.
(Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford) is NOT an attempt to 'rewrite history', but its opposite - a campaign to bring its uncomfortable truths to salience.
This time it's one smartphone cut in half, so there are some price savings to be had, samsung continues to see an opportunity to differentiate itself in an otherwise copycat market and still make some money off of it. It already has the innovation chops and the manufacturing capabilities to do this themselves, and it's practically a category that it can claim as its own until foldables gain greater salience. That's a strong position for Samsung.
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Translations for salience
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- بروزArabic
- prominensDanish
- Hervorspringen, Salienz, perzeptuelle ProminenzGerman
- προεξοχήGreek
- prominenciaSpanish
- برجستگیPersian
- tärkeys, keskisyys, huomattavuusFinnish
- saillance, prégnanceFrench
- centresoIdo
- gewicht, blikvanger, karakteristieke, opmerkelijke, hoogtepuntDutch
- występPolish
- выпуклостьRussian
- salienceSwedish
- increase முனைப்பைTamil
- göze çarpma, atlama, belirginlik, dikkati çekmeTurkish
- salienceUrdu
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