| Salience 1. (n.) Standing out; significance; strikingness. 2. (n.) The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion. Thesaurus Entries 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 | ![]() |