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Conspicuousness

noun

The state of being conspicuous.

High visibility.

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"Conspicuousness" Quotes from Famous Books

... feel it to be beautiful; on the contrary, if you think over the matter, you will find that you actually do owe, and ought to owe, a great part of your pleasure in all cottage scenery, and in all the inexhaustible imagery of literature which is founded upon it, to the conspicuousness of the cottage roof—to the subordination of the cottage itself to its covering, which leaves, in nine cases out of ten, really more roof than anything else. It is, indeed, not so much the whitewashed walls—nor the flowery ...

— Lectures on Architecture and Painting - Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 • John Ruskin

... larger proportion smell sweetly than of any other color, namely, 14.6 per cent; of red only 8.2 per cent are odoriferous. The fact of a large proportion of white flowers smelling sweetly may depend in part on those which are fertilized by moths requiring the double aid of conspicuousness in the dusk and of odor. So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exclusively in the evening." ...

— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan

Words linked to "Conspicuousness" : saliency, noticeableness, obtrusiveness, conspicuous, strikingness, boldness, inconspicuous, obviousness, patency, inconspicuousness, salience, invisible, visibility, noticeability, visibleness