SALIENCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The state of being salient

Synonyms:

salience; saliency; strikingness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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)