| 单词 | salience |
| 释义 | salience (once / 107449 pages) n Salience means importance. Your birthday will always be a date that jumps out at you with a lot of salience or importance. Salience comes from the Latin salire, meaning "to leap." Something with salience leaps out at you because it is unique or special in some way. This could be an issue — like health care reform, or a day — like 9/11, or even something someone said — like the State of the Union address. If it jumps out at you as remarkable or special, it's characterized by a quality of salience. WORD FAMILYsalience: saliences+/saliency: saliencies/salient: salience, saliency, saliently, salients USAGE EXAMPLESIndeed, its political salience is precisely what renders race so reliably non-perishable. The Guardian(Dec 19, 2016) As to the first question, the explanation is quite simple: During protracted wars, traditional standards for measuring generalship lose their salience. Salon(Dec 01, 2016) In examining the relationship between white identity and ethnic diversity, we chose to focus on an ethnic minority of particular salience in contemporary politics: Hispanics. Salon(Oct 23, 2016) n the state of being salient Syn|Hypo|Hyper saliency, strikingness conspicuousness the state of being conspicuous profile, visibilitydegree of exposure to public notice low profilea state of low visibility in which public notice is avoided prominence the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent |
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