salience

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Noun salience has 1 sense

salience, saliency, strikingness - the state of being salient
--₁ is a kind of prominence
--₁ has particulars: conspicuousness; visibility, profile

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Salience

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1. The quality of being particularly noticeable or important.

Example sentence: The bright red color of the billboard adds to its salience and makes it stand out among the other advertisements.

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2. (Psychology) The subjective significance or importance that an individual assigns to something.

Example sentence: The salience of a particular memory can vary based on the emotional impact it had on the individual.

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3. (Linguistics) The degree to which something stands out and attracts attention in a discourse or conversation.

Example sentence: To enhance the salience of the key points, the presenter used visual aids and repetition.

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4. (Mathematics) A measure of the weight or significance assigned to a particular feature or component in a mathematical model or analysis.

Example sentence: The salience of each factor in the equation was determined to analyze its impact on the outcome.