Usually means: Prominence or importance within context.
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  1. saliency: Merriam-Webster
  2. saliency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. saliency: Collins English Dictionary
  4. saliency: Vocabulary.com
  5. saliency: Wordnik
  6. saliency: Wiktionary
  7. saliency: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. saliency: Dictionary.com
  9. Saliency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Saliency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. saliency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. saliency: Rhymezone
  13. Saliency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. saliency: FreeDictionary.org
  15. saliency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Saliency: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. saliency: Legal dictionary

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  1. saliency: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (saliency)

▸ noun:  the quality of being salient; salience

Similar:
salience, strikingness, hypersalience, salaciousness, saltativeness, significantness, saleableness, noticeableness, importantness, sensoriness, more...

Opposite:
insignificance, obscurity, unimportance

Types:
conspicuous, striking, prominent, noticeable, obvious, more...

Phrases:
Saliency map, more...

Adjectives:
political, greater, high, perceptual, relative, low, emotional, particular, visual, cognitive, more

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Similar:
salience, strikingness, hypersalience, salaciousness, saltativeness, significantness, saleableness, noticeableness, importantness, sensoriness, more...

Opposite:
insignificance, obscurity, unimportance

Types:
conspicuous, striking, prominent, noticeable, obvious, more...

Phrases:
Saliency map, more...

Adjectives:
political, greater, high, perceptual, relative, low, emotional, particular, visual, cognitive, more



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