Definitions for saliences

saliences sa·li·ence

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

Saliences is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 437 anagrams from letters in saliences (aceeilnss).

Definitions for saliences

noun

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

Origin of saliences

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

Examples for saliences

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.

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.

Word Value for saliences
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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