Salience or saliency may refer to:

Mortality salience, a product of the terror management theory in social psychology Motivational salience, a motivational "wanting" attribute given by the brain Salience (language), the property of being noticeable or important Salience (neuroscience), the perceptual quality by which an observable thing stands out relative to its environment Social salience, in social psychology, a set of reasons which draw an observer's attention toward a particular object

See also Salient (disambiguation)