Usually means: Prominence or importance of something.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word salience:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. salience: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. salience: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. salience: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. salience: Collins English Dictionary
  5. salience: Vocabulary.com
  6. Salience, salience: Wordnik
  7. salience: Wiktionary
  8. salience: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. salience: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. salience: Dictionary.com
  11. Salience (communication), Salience (disambiguation), Salience (language), Salience (neuroscience), Salience (semiotics), Salience: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Salience: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. salience: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. salience: Rhymezone
  15. Salience: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. salience: Free Dictionary
  17. salience: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. salience: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Salience (neuroscience), salience: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. salience: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (salience)

noun:  The condition of being salient.
noun:  A highlight; perceptual prominence, or likelihood of being noticed.
noun:  (social sciences, linguistics) Relative importance based on context.

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