SALIENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saliency mean? 

• SALIENCY (noun)
  The noun SALIENCY has 1 sense:

1. the state of being salient

  Familiarity information: SALIENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALIENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being salient

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

salience; saliency; strikingness

Hypernyms ("saliency" is a kind of...):

prominence (the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saliency"):

conspicuousness (the state of being conspicuous)

profile; visibility (degree of exposure to public notice)

Derivation:

salient (having a quality that thrusts itself into attention)