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    SALIENCY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The state of being salientplay

    Synonyms:

    salience; saliency; strikingness

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("saliency" is a kind of...):

    prominence (the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saliency"):

    conspicuousness (the state of being conspicuous)

    profile; visibility (degree of exposure to public notice)

    Derivation:

    salient (having a quality that thrusts itself into attention)

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