salience

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Its salience is another matter; but it has to be remembered that though the scene acts vividly, it acts slowly, in relation to its length.

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  1. noun The quality or condition of being salient.
  2. noun A pronounced feature or part; a highlight.

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  • But I missed this aside and it has obvious personal salience:One of your readers asked about my own work in OLC.
  • Would alien languages have this property I would guess that languages using the vocal channel will have five properties: audibility, salience, redundancy, high modulation, and coding To communicate, we must be heard. —  AnalogSFF,May2007
  • "Once it became the vogue to discover one's salience, I intended to charge a quite unreasonable fee, out of which I would repay what I owe you, plus a substantial bonus A good plan," Imbry said. —  FSF, July 2006
  • The point here is salience, nothing to distract the eye. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Now, with the state of the nation's public finances a key theme in Tory attacks on Labour's economic management, this "fiscal incentive" to use PFI has even more political salience. —  Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk
 

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  1. from salien(t) + -ce. Cf. the older form saliance.
 

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/ˈseɪlɪəns/
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