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Strikingness

noun
1.
The state of being salient.  Synonyms: salience, saliency.
2.
The quality of standing out strongly and distinctly.  Synonym: boldness.






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"Strikingness" Quotes from Famous Books



... by the desire to say what he means with more novelty, strikingness, or force, applied the word to ideas that have no surfaces to be uneven. He imagined what these ideas would be like if they had surfaces. Of course in putting these conceptions into language he was creating figures of speech, some of them startlingly apt, some of them merely far-fetched. ...
— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor



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