salience

[sey-lee-uhns, seyl-yuhns]

noun

1. the state or condition of being salient.

2. a salient or projecting object, part, or feature.

Word History and Origins

Origin of salience¹

First recorded in 1830–40; salient, -ence

Example Sentences

As Congress wakes up from its self-imposed slumber to face the prospect of yet another government shutdown showdown, what Vought said has particular salience.

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The prominence of the issue of asylum, particularly the rows about the Bell Hotel in Epping in Essex, gave a salience to a theme Reform regard as their own.

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This means that events which happen locally in a person’s community, neighborhood or social circle — or to them personally — are given higher salience and impact than events that happen on a much larger society-wide scale.

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This question takes on added salience with Israel's attack on Iran and the Islamists' fear that they are facing an irreversible defeat.

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This reward pathway regulates motivation, reinforces learning, and activates incentive salience, which is a cognitive process that makes us experience “desire” or “want.”

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