Definitions for salience

salience sa·li·ence

Spelling: [sey-lee-uh ns, seyl-yuh ns]
IPA: /ˈseɪ li əns, ˈseɪl yəns/

Salience is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 343 anagrams from letters in salience (aceeilns).

Definitions for salience

noun

  1. the state or condition of being salient.
  2. a salient or projecting object, part, or feature.

Origin of salience

First recorded in 1830-40; See origin at salient, -ence

Examples for salience

For it is, I am compelled to think, the salience of personality.

By constricting187 the waist it accentuates the salience of the bosom and hips.

In the Khorsabad relief (Fig. 107) the salience of these horns is less marked.

In it the chisel has merely reproduced the contours of the eyelids and the salience of the eyeball.

From this salience her small chin retreated delicately into her pink throat.

Her eyes were bright and resolute, and the lamplight threw into salience the curve of her jaw and chin.

It is a salience complete, dominating, unapproached, but one which must infallibly diminish with time.

Some have disputed the salience of Vietnam for the Afghan strategy debate.

Word Value for salience
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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