SALIENCY

salience, saliency, strikingness

(noun) the state of being salient

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

saliency (countable and uncountable, plural saliencies)

the quality of being salient; salience

Source: Wiktionary


Sa"li*en*cy, n.

Definition: Quality of being salient; hence, vigor. "A fatal lack of poetic saliency." J. Morley.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

14 April 2025

FOCUS

(noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; “in focus”; “out of focus”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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