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saliency

Syllables: sa·lien·cyUK/ˈseɪ.li.ən.si/

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Australia/ˈsæɪ.li.ən.si/

saliency noun: the quality of being salient; salience.

Noun

saliency (countable and uncountable, plural saliencies)

  1. the quality of being salient; salience
    • The saliency of the model of production with convexity and constant returns to scale technologies recommends that we examine it in some further detail.1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 154

saliency meaning in Tamil

saliency in Tamil

புறமுனைப்பு, பிதுக்கம், துருத்திக்கொண்டுள்ள தன்மை, புறப்புடைப்புத்தோற்றம், முகப்பு

Forms of saliency

pluralsaliencies

Origin of saliency

From salient + -cy.

Questions about saliency

What does saliency mean?
Saliency means the quality of being salient; salience.
What is saliency in Tamil?
Saliency in Tamil is புறமுனைப்பு, பிதுக்கம், துருத்திக்கொண்டுள்ள தன்மை. See Saliency meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is saliency?
Saliency is a noun.
How do you pronounce saliency?
Saliency is pronounced /ˈseɪ.li.ən.si/ (UK).
What is the plural of saliency?
The plural of saliency is saliencies.

Words near saliency in the dictionary

  1. salidroside
  2. salidrosides
  3. salience
  4. saliences
  5. saliencies
  6. saliency
  7. salient
  8. salient point
  9. salient points
  10. salient pole
  11. salient poles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saliency (page history and authors); saliency (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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