saliency

Questions about saliency

What does saliency mean?

saliency means "the state of being salient".

How many syllables are in saliency?

saliency has 3 syllables: sa-lien-cy. The stress falls on "sa".

What is another word for saliency?

Close synonyms include salience, strikingness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is saliency a common word?

saliency is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.