| English Dictionary |
SALIENCE
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
Dictionary entry overview: What does salience mean?
• SALIENCE (noun)
The noun SALIENCE has 1 sense:
1. the state of being salient
Familiarity information: SALIENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being salient
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
salience; saliency; strikingness
Hypernyms ("salience" is a kind of...):
prominence (the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "salience"):
conspicuousness (the state of being conspicuous)
profile; visibility (degree of exposure to public notice)
Derivation:
salient (having a quality that thrusts itself into attention)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely." (English proverb)
"The wolf has a thick neck because it has fast legs." (Albanian proverb)
"Luck in the sky and brains in the ground." (Arabic proverb)
"To make your neighbor jealous, go to bed early and get up early." (Corsican proverb)
"The wolf has a thick neck because it has fast legs." (Albanian proverb)
"Luck in the sky and brains in the ground." (Arabic proverb)
"To make your neighbor jealous, go to bed early and get up early." (Corsican proverb)