salience
Example Sentences
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But what gives them their current salience—besides cozy sit-downs with the nation’s top media celebrity—is their claim, a plausible one, to be speaking for others.
It gave the issue of accidental releases from prison a salience and prominence it hadn't had until then.
From BBC
Some rate setters were worried about the faster rise in food prices this year, since they have greater “salience” for inflation expectations given the frequency with which they are purchased.
This means that events which happen locally in a person’s community, neighborhood or social circle — or to them personally — are given higher salience and impact than events that happen on a much larger society-wide scale.
From Salon
This reward pathway regulates motivation, reinforces learning, and activates incentive salience, which is a cognitive process that makes us experience “desire” or “want.”
From Salon
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