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saliency|ˈseɪlɪənsɪ|
[f. salient: see -ency.]
†1. Leaping or jumping. Obs.
1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 25 It [sc. the ant] trips so nimbly away without any saliency or leaping.
2. a. = salience 2 a.
1834J. S. Macaulay Field Fortif. vi. §1. 114 In order to give as great a saliency as possible to these lunettes. 1841Hor. Smith Moneyed Man III. viii. 208 The great attenuation of the face..gave a singular saliency to the features. 1863Lytton Caxtoniana II. 275 Its merits are not to be sought in the saliency of any predominating excellence. 1882C. D. Warner Washington Irving vi. 118 A man,..whose..strong patriotism did not need the saliency of ignorant partisanship.
b. Social Psychol. = salience 2 b.
1965T. M. Newcomb et al. Social Psychol. ii. 37 The notion of saliency has an interesting counterpart in the information storage of modern ‘thinking machines’ or large computers.
3. = salience 3.
1831Examiner 68/2 They should be replete with saliencies, and..poke quaint peculiarities at the spectator. 1887Harper's Mag. July 266 Their little chronology..stepped briskly over the centuries solely on the names of kings and sanguinary saliencies. |