salience
IPA: sˈeɪɫiʌns
noun
- The condition of being salient.
- A highlight; perceptual prominence, or likelihood of being noticed.
- (social sciences, linguistics) Relative importance based on context.
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Examples of "salience" in Sentences
- The former distinction merely lacks moral salience.
- Salience is the state or condition of being prominent.
- The size of the group affects the salience of group identities.
- Distinctiveness also influences the salience of group identities.
- Either or both of these would reduce the salience of this matter.
- He presents Switzerland as an example of a nation with low salience.
- The concept of salience appears in several domains, as described below.
- It is the limbic brain that determines the salience of that information.
- Evidence for a deficit in the salience attribution to errors in smokers.