salience
pronunciation
How to pronounce salience in British English:
UK ['seɪljəns]
How to pronounce salience in American English:
US [ˈseliəns, ˈseljəns]
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- Noun:
- the state of being salient
Word Origin
- salience (n.)
- 1836, "quality of leaping;" see salient (adj.) + -ence. Meaning "quality of standing out" is from 1849.
Example
- 1. As a result , china has growing salience as an electoral issue .
- 2. The phenomenon of salience gives the press a special , and disturbing , responsibility .
- 3. It is only such a process of democratization and reconstruction that would truly lessen the salience of libya 's enduring divisions .
- 4. But in a world of nation states it is inequality within countries that has political salience , and this special report will focus on that .
- 5. One of the oddities of these issues is that the regulatory environment is so frequently set at local levels , at which partisan divides frequently lose their salience .