salience
Quality of noticeability
Salience is the quality of standing out or being particularly noticeable.
In psychology and cognitive science, salience describes what captures attention amid competing stimuli: The salience of the red warning light drew her eye immediately.
Something with high salience demands notice; low salience means it fades into the background.
The adjective is salient.
State of being noticeable
- noticeabilityState of being apparent
- visibilityRange of clear sight
- distinctivenessQuality of being distinguishable
- standoutExceptional person or thing
highlight · foreground · dominance · strikingness · boldness · obviousness · remarkability · impressiveness
State of perceiving reality
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- attentionFocused mental awareness
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- mindfulnessAwareness of the present
focus · discernment · noticing · consciousness · detectability · perceptibility · top-of-mind · recall
Stress placed on syllables
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- highlightMost notable part
- underscoreLow horizontal text mark
- foregroundNearest visual plane
amplification · heightening · reinforcement · punctuation · intensification · spotlight · prioritization · weight
conspicuousness
State of being noticeable
- noticeabilityState of being apparent
- visibilityRange of clear sight
- distinctivenessQuality of being distinguishable
standout · highlight · foreground · dominance · strikingness · boldness · obviousness · remarkability · impressiveness · noteworthiness
awareness
State of perceiving reality
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- attentionFocused mental awareness
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
mindfulness · focus · discernment · noticing · consciousness · detectability · perceptibility · top-of-mind · recall · memorability
accentuation
Stress placed on syllables
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- highlightMost notable part
- underscoreLow horizontal text mark
foreground · amplification · heightening · reinforcement · punctuation · intensification · spotlight · prioritization · weight · underline
- importanceimportance, significance, consequence, weight, gravity
- emphasisstress, accent, stressing, highlighting, underscoring
- prominencesprotuberance, protrusion, bulge, bump, swelling
- relevancerelevance, relevant, pertinence, pertinent, germane
- significancesignificance, meaning, importance, relevance, value
- media influenceagenda setting, gatekeeping, framing, priming, media framing
salienceobscurity
State of being unknown
inconspicuousness · invisibility · unobtrusiveness · hiddenness · imperceptibility
salienceirrelevance
Lack of pertinence
insignificance · unimportance · triviality · immateriality · inconsequence
- salient pointCrucial element worth noting