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Criticality vs Salience - What's the difference?

criticality | salience |

As nouns the difference between criticality and salience

is that criticality is the state of being critical while salience is the condition of being salient.

criticality

English

Noun

(wikipedia criticality) (criticalities)
  • The state of being critical
  • (education) A disposition for purposeful thinking and acting guided by criteria that are considered to be contextually appropriate and that are expected to result in positive outcomes related to the purpose.
  • (physics) The point at which a nuclear reaction becomes self-sustaining

    • Related terms

    * criticalness

    Derived terms

    * criticality accident * criticality matrix * dry criticality * wet criticality * recriticality

    salience

    English

    (wikipedia salience)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The condition of being salient.
  • A highlight; perceptual prominence, or likelihood of being noticed.
  • (social sciences, linguistics) Relative importance based on context.