Salience
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Salience or saliency is the quality of being prominent, worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
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See
- Availability, salience and vividness, concepts in social psychology
- Incentive salience, a motivational "wanting" attribute given by the brain
- Mortality salience, a product of the terror management theory in social psychology
- Salience (language), the property of being noticeable or important
- Salience (neuroscience), the perceptual quality by which an observable thing stands out relative to its environment
- Social salience, in social psychology, a set of reasons which draw an observer's attention toward a particular object
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Etymology
From Latin salire, leaping. See salto.
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