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salience|ˈseɪlɪəns|
[f. salient: see -ence.]
1. The quality of leaping or springing up. rare.
1836L. Hunt in New Monthly Mag. XLVII. 479 What fresh, clean, and youthful salience in the lynx! 1840― Seer i. 6 The suddenness and salience of all that is lively, sprouting, and new.
2. a. The fact, quality, or condition of being salient or projecting beyond the general outline or surface. Also of immaterial things.
1849Lytton Caxtons x. i, No wonder that thou seemest..to have a great cavity where thy brain should have the bump of ‘conscientiousness’ in full salience! 1877Symonds Renaiss. It., Fine Arts III. vi. 299 His character does not emerge with any salience from the meagre notices we have received concerning him. a1878Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) I. 149 These subsidiary shafts may be..subordinated one to another, both in size and salience. 1884Contemp. Rev. July 142 There is not the same unity of composition or salience of colour.
b. Social Psychol. The quality or fact of being more prominent in a person's awareness or in his memory of past experience.
1938H. D. Spoerl tr. Stern's Gen. Psychol. from Personalistic Standpoint iv. 74 The different proportions of salience and embedding give the process and content of every experience its special character. 1938G. W. Allport Personality xx. 553 At other times..consciousness is embedded..more deeply; there is less clearness, less salience. Salience represents an act of pointing, a directedness of the person toward something that at the moment has special significance for him. 1953C. I. Hovland et al. Communication & Persuasion v. 155 We shall refer to the degree to which..a specific group is present and prominent in a person's ‘awareness’ as the salience of that group. 1958W. C. Schutz FIRO vii. 147 If the reaction to the anxiety is withdrawal from interchange in that area, the area acquires a negative salience in that the actor tries to avoid it. 1965T. M. Newcomb et al. Social Psychol. iii. 58 The difference between the centrality of an object to an individual and the closely related matter of its salience. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. Aug. 256 Relatively low Salience problems..produced shifts predominantly towards greater risk.
3. A salient or projecting feature, part, or object.
1837C. Lofft Self-formation I. 144 To people who would merely lounge along, side by side, these saliences are sorely annoying, they are abominable things. 1890C. H. Moore Gothic Archit. ix. 299 Saliences are indicated conventionally [in illumination] by paling the colour. 1894R. Ellis Phaedrus 26 An imitator reproduces the saliences of his model. 1908Westm. Gaz. 7 May 2/1 The Badakshan district..forms a salience, running deeply into Russian territory. |