salience

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sa=li=ence

CIDE DICTIONARY

salience, n. [See Salient.].

•  The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.  [1913 Webster]
•  The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion.  Sir W. Hamilton.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

salience

arrantness, bas-relief, bellying, blatancy, boldness, bulging, conspicuousness, dignity, distinction, embossment, eminence, esteem, excrescence, excrescency, extrusion, fame, flagrance, flagrancy, gibbosity, gibbousness, glory, greatness, high relief, honor, low relief, memorability, notability, noteworthiness, noticeability, notoriety, notoriousness, obtrusiveness, ostentation, outstandingness, prestige, projection, prominence, pronouncedness, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, relief, remarkableness, renown, reputation, repute, saliency, salient, strikingness, strong relief, tuberosity, tuberousness