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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The fact or condition of being salient; the state of projecting or being projected; projection; protrusion.
  2. n. A projection; any part or feature of an object or whole which protrudes or juts out beyond its general surface, as a molding considered with reference to a wall which it decorates.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The condition of being salient.
  2. n. A highlight; perceptual prominence, or likelihood of being noticed.
  3. n. Relative importance based on context.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
  2. n. The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the state of being salient

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  • jwjarvis kind of reduce its salience for a group of folks who aren't persuadable Mar 10, 2011

‘salience’ has been looked up 1819 times, loved by 3 people, added to 14 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 10.