Definition of "saliency" []

• The quality of being salient; salience (noun)

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• "I wonder if the apparent saliency this “efficacy testing is rationing” concept has for wingnuts is related to a belief in useless alternative “therapies” like crystals, colloidal silver, homeopathy, and so on."
• "For me, these two definitions do not just create a crossroads of meaning when intersected but more so, the saliency of the connection is that one is a mircocosm standing in for the macrocosm."
• "The saliency of this need is no less apparent now, when we are fighting a war in Central Asia and globally against Islamist terrorists, facing an increasingly ambitious China, dealing daily with securing the great commons of the sea, space, and cyberspace, witnessing continuing instability in the Middle East, and may soon face not one but two rogue regimes armed with nuclear weapons."