salience
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7.5
- noun
- /ˈseɪliəns/
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saliencia
- The salience of environmental issues has grown in recent years, capturing the attention of policymakers.
- salience of issues
- degree of salience
- salience and importance
Right up from that is salience, what we're paying attention to inside and out.
- Right up from that is salience, what we're paying attention to inside and out.
- Most people when asked, do think that immigration is too high, and they always have, but its salience has fallen significantly.
- And then so they, the Israelis, know the salience of Gaza has been significantly reduced in our media.
- So in that sense, whiteness, the salience, the importance of whiteness is kind of tamping down some.
- And the dorsal front part is part of our salience network, the alarm system.
- The, the, the path that religious salience has taken.
- Perhaps you could elaborate a little bit more on this salience cupboard under function of self.
- The emotional salience can change, but those are wild years.
- We felt strongly OK, so they can provide information about salience, about the population's feelings.
- It has the salience network, it has the attention network, and then it has the executive control network.
- So for example, vigilance mechanisms in the brain, their whole systems of the brain, salience mechanisms start looking more for negative things.
- One factor probably is it's a bit morbid, but mortality, salience when people, this seems to be why there are post war baby booms.
Examples
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Most people when asked, do think that immigration is too high, and they always have, but its salience has fallen significantly.
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The second feature of the campaign was the relatively low salience of economic issues.
Academic text (1991) -
Further, this issue is of high salience to the Israeli public.
Academic text (1996) -
The critical approach has special salience today, given the increased requirement in our society for critical thinking.
Academic text (1996) -
Outcome variables in the current study were selected because of their salience to healthy development during youth.
Academic text (2008) -
Such ethnic conflicts are of increasing salience in a post-Cold War world.
Academic text (1996) -
Military cooperation has assumed greater salience in bilateral Indian-Israel relations.
Academic text (2013) -
Several questions in the survey sought information about the salience of climatic hazards to the dairy farmers.
Academic text (1994) -
Coded text segments were then mapped onto a matrix so that the salience of each theme could be assessed.
Academic text (2008) -
In her speech, she highlighted the salience of education in reducing poverty and improving society.
Synonyms
663
1.0
A quality that makes something have great value or effect
194
3.8
How important something is or how much it matters
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8.0
The quality of being very noticeable or important
1
7.9
Being very important and likely to have big effects
A quality that is easy to notice and attracts attention
How easy it is to see or understand something
How easy something is to see or understand
The great importance of something for a result or decision
Antonyms
How Noticeable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word salience comes from the Latin root salire, which means 'to jump', and you can see the same root in the word salient. So, imagine something that 'jumps out' from its background, and that 'jumping out' is why salience means being especially noticeable or important.