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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."

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saliency

n. the quality of being salient; salience

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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.