Crossword clues for saliency
saliency
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saliency
Saliency \Sa"li*en*cy\, n.
Quality of being salient; hence, vigor. ``A fatal lack of
poetic saliency.''
--J. Morley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
saliency
1660s, "leaping, jumping;" see salient (adj.) + -cy. From 1834 as "salience."
Wiktionary
saliency
n. the quality of being salient; salience
WordNet
saliency
n. the state of being salient [syn: salience, strikingness]
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.