salience Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the state of being salient
    saliency; strikingness.

WordNet

Sa"li*ence noun
Etymology
See Salient.
Definitions
  1. That quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
  2. The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion. Sir W. Hamilton.

Webster 1913