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Conspicuousness
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salience
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Word definitions for salience in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1836, "quality of leaping;" see salient (adj.) + -ence . Meaning "quality of standing out" is from 1849.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The salience (also called saliency ) of an item – be it an object, a person, a pixel, etc. – is the state or quality by which it stands out relative to its neighbors. Saliency detection is considered to be a key attentional mechanism that facilitates learning ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salience \Sa"li*ence\, n. [See Salient .] The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting. The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion. --Sir W. Hamilton.
Usage examples of salience.
The thaumaturge found that seeking to know his own salience brought on a blinding headache.
But it continued to wear on Imbry that so many of the lives he touched to the salience indicator were revealed to be of almost no consequence at all.
She was waiting in the now opulent room where the salience indicator sat, wearing an expression that Imbry could only characterize as a mean-hearted sulk.
He heard nothing of what had happened to the salience indicator, and did not inquire.
Imbry that so many of the lives he touched to the salience indicator were revealed to be of almost no consequence at all.
Or it may be that we appreciate the magnitude of an object by observing the salience and recession of its several parts, so that to perceive its true size we must have it close at hand.
She was pregnant, quite far along, and their enthusiastic hug had to accommodate itself to the salience of her belly.
This is thought to be the area of the brain that decides the salience of a stimulus: how important it is at any given point.
You would not be able to notice that the salience of food har-changed.
German frontier made it dangerous in the hands of the enemy, and also made it easier for the Germans to concentrate on its attack the masses of artillery with which they proposed to do the fighting, while its salience hampered the French lines of communication.
Attraction: The Effects of Mortality Salience on Evaluations of Charismatic, Task-Oriented, and Relationship-Oriented Leaders.
Attraction: The effects of mortality salience on evaluations of charismatic, task-oriented, and relationship-oriented leaders.
Fantastic sceneries leapt into momentary salience, taking on the definitude and perspective of actual landscapes, and then faded back amid the iridescent blur.
The blow I'd taken would have flung an unanchored victim right out to the shaft's ragged lip and left him sprawled on its dizziest salience above the webbed abyss.