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What does salience mean?

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Noun
  1. The condition of being salient.
  2. A highlight; perceptual prominence, or likelihood of being noticed.
  3. (linguistics) Relative importance based on context.
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Such work sheds light on re-enactment as a popular cultural phenomenon with a salience in the present.
The broad realm of their telecommunications policy has acquired a salience it never had in the past.
I don't think of myself as a declinist, but the salience of the alliance we are leading is fading fast.
A second characteristic that distinguishes markets in which valuation is difficult is the heightened salience of product category boundaries.
The salience of the local press, often assumed to have diminished during the war, in fact increased dramatically.
These cues varied systematically in their perceptual salience relative to the primary task in which it was embedded.

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