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The state of being salient
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saliency
Word definitions for saliency in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "leaping, jumping;" see salient (adj.) + -cy . From 1834 as "salience."
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being salient [syn: salience , strikingness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the quality of being salient; salience
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saliency \Sa"li*en*cy\, n. Quality of being salient; hence, vigor. ``A fatal lack of poetic saliency.'' --J. Morley.
Usage examples of saliency.
Esoteric, unspeakable forms lost saliency as her resource re-installed inhibitory connections with the metacortex.
The nchoo infection was dribbling away, its warm, bubbling-silver effects losing saliency, but that did not matter.