'Salience' definitions:
Definition of 'salience'
From: WordNet
noun
The state of being salient [syn: salience, saliency, strikingness]
Definition of 'Salience'
From: GCIDE
- Salience \Sa"li*ence\, n. [See Salient.]
- 1. The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'salience'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arrantness,
- bas-relief,
- bellying,
- blatancy,
- boldness,
- bulging,
- conspicuousness,
- dignity,
- distinction,
- embossment,
- eminence,
- esteem,
- excrescence,
- excrescency,
- extrusion,
- fame,
- flagrance,
- flagrancy,
- gibbosity,
- gibbousness,
- glory,
- greatness,
- high relief,
- honor,
- low relief,
- memorability,
- notability,
- noteworthiness,
- noticeability,
- notoriety,
- notoriousness,
- obtrusiveness,
- ostentation,
- outstandingness,
- prestige,
- projection,
- prominence,
- pronouncedness,
- protrusion,
- protuberance,
- protuberancy,
- relief,
- remarkableness,
- renown,
- reputation,
- repute,
- saliency,
- salient,
- strikingness,
- strong relief,
- tuberosity,
- tuberousness