单词 | salience |
释义 | saliencen. 1. The quality of leaping or springing up. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > faculty or quality of saltativeness1829 salience1836 1836 L. Hunt in New Monthly Mag. 47 479 What fresh, clean, and youthful salience in the lynx! 1840 L. Hunt Seer i. 6 The suddenness and salience of all that is lively, sprouting, and new. 2. a. The fact, quality, or condition of being salient or projecting beyond the general outline or surface. Also of immaterial things. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] projecture1563 jutting1565 project1596 juttying1611 prominence1611 excursiona1626 extancy1644 outjetty1650 projection1664 projecting1726 jetting1754 saliency1834 salience1849 protrusion1853 prominency1871 pout1880–4 out-thrust1955 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons x. xlvi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 149/1 No wonder that thou seemest..to have a great cavity where thy brain should have the bump of ‘conscientiousness’ in full salience! 1877 J. A. Symonds Fine Arts in Renaissance in Italy III. vi. 299 His character does not emerge with any salience from the meagre notices we have received concerning him. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 149 These subsidiary shafts may be..subordinated one to another, both in size and salience. 1884 Contemp. Rev. July 142 There is not the same unity of composition or salience of colour. b. Social Psychology. The quality or fact of being more prominent in a person's awareness or in his memory of past experience. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > [noun] > fitness to be remembered memorabilitya1661 memorableness1727 salience1938 saliency1965 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > capacity for retaining experience > [noun] > prominence in memory salience1938 1938 H. D. Spoerl tr. Stern Gen. Psychol. from Personalistic Standpoint iv. 74 The different proportions of salience and embedding give the process and content of every experience its special character. 1938 G. W. Allport Personality xx. 553 At other times..consciousness is embedded..more deeply; there is less clearness, less salience. Salience represents an act of pointing, a directedness of the person toward something that at the moment has special significance for him. 1953 C. I. Hovland et al. Communication & Persuasion v. 155 We shall refer to the degree to which..a specific group is present and prominent in a person's ‘awareness’ as the salience of that group. 1958 W. C. Schutz FIRO vii. 147 If the reaction to the anxiety is withdrawal from interchange in that area, the area acquires a negative salience in that the actor tries to avoid it. 1965 T. M. Newcomb et al. Social Psychol. iii. 58 The difference between the centrality of an object to an individual and the closely related matter of its salience. 1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 87 256 Relatively low Salience problems..produced shifts predominantly towards greater risk. 3. A salient or projecting feature, part, or object. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > a projecting part hornc1275 outshooting1310 nosec1400 startc1400 spout1412 snouta1425 outbearingc1425 outstanding?c1425 relish1428 jeta1500 rising1525 shoulder1545 jutting1565 outshootc1565 prominence1578 forecast1580 projection1592 sprout1598 eye1600 shooting forth1601 lip1608 juttying1611 prominent?1611 eminence1615 butting1625 excursiona1626 elbow1626 protrusion1646 jettinga1652 outjetting1652 prominency1654 eminency1668 nouch1688 issuanta1690 out-butting1730 outjet1730 out-jutting1730 flange1735 nosing1773 process1775 jut1787 projecture1803 nozzle1804 saliency1831 ajutment1834 salience1837 out-thrust1842 emphasis1885 cleat1887 outjut1893 pseudopodiuma1902 1837 C. Lofft Self-formation I. 144 To people who would merely lounge along, side by side, these saliences are sorely annoying, they are abominable things. 1890 C. H. Moore Devel. & Char. Gothic Archit. ix. 299 Saliences are indicated conventionally [in illumination] by paling the colour. 1894 R. Ellis Fables of Phædrus 26 An imitator reproduces the saliences of his model. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 7 May 2/1 The Badakshan district..forms a salience, running deeply into Russian territory. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1836 |
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