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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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The broad realm of their telecommunications policy has acquired a salience it never had in the past.
Such work sheds light on re-enactment as a popular cultural phenomenon with a salience in the present.
Rather than comparing a behavior or therapy characteristic to a norm, it is compared for its salience relative to the other items.
I don't think of myself as a declinist, but the salience of the alliance we are leading is fading fast.
The salience of what researchers have seen and heard has to be impressed on the audience.
On the security front, we have observed the decline in the salience of strategic nuclear weapons.

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