saliency
- noun
- /ˈseɪliənsi/
- Environmental issues affect many business decisions, and the saliency of these issues continues to grow.
- cultural saliency
- goal saliency
- saliency of issues
Examples
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The low saliency of economic issues can be analyzed from a "rational voter" perspective as well.
Academic text (1991) -
The results here attest only to the saliency of definitions in the context of substance use.
Academic text (2008) -
Therefore, it appears that goal saliency is an important variable for future consideration.
Academic text (2009) -
Therefore, their products often lack legitimacy and saliency to other stakeholders.
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There are, however, conflicting results about the saliency of visual versus verbal content.
Academic text (1993) -
We assess the saliency of social learning by examining how definitions of substance use impact lifetime usage.
Academic text (2008) -
The results suggest that future research is needed to examine goal saliency using the hierarchical model of achievement motivation.
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We also examine the saliency of individual contextual elements, which may offset the acculturation-drug use relationship altogether.
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An African American man's perceptions about the saliency and efficacy of an early detection examination help inform his perceptions about benefits.
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The saliency of climate change has become evident in recent public discussions and debates.
Synonyms
A state of being important and easily noticed
A quality that is easy to notice and more important than other things
How easy something is to see or notice
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
How easy something is to see or understand
Antonyms
How Noticeable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Saliency comes from the Latin salire ('to jump') and the same root is in the common English word salient; imagine a detail that 'jumps out' at you. So, saliency means the quality of being especially noticeable or important.