The phrase "a salient characteristic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a prominent or important feature of something, often in discussions or analyses.
Example: "One salient characteristic of the new software is its user-friendly interface, which enhances productivity."
Alternatives: "a notable feature" or "a key attribute".
Depending on the context, it's just as well, and more concise, to refer to a group of people by a salient characteristic—"the unemployed", "the elderly".
Of the desultory crew of candidates being mooted, the three most likely share a salient characteristic: they are dependably "pro-Beijing".
A salient characteristic of veteran suicides is that the great majority involve guns (e.g., 66% of male veteran suicides involve firearms, compared with 56% of US males generally) (VA Suicide Prevention Program, 2016).
Furthermore, in spite the absence of fish, a salient characteristic of this wetland system, the predation by birds and specific members of the community has a structuring role on the zooplankton assemblages present.
"But you have to ask whether immigration status is a salient characteristic here".
Some of these would hurt the researcher theoretically: we would lose a non-trivial amount of data for our analysis, and the frequent omission of arguments is clearly a salient characteristic of the behavior of some lexical items.
Commonly, a salient feature or characteristic of the subject is seized upon and exaggerated, or features of animals, birds, or vegetables are substituted for parts of the human being, or analogy is made to animal actions.
In place of a single complex life story or family narrative, De Bernières introduces and sets in motion a mob of characters restricted, necessarily as in Dickens, to a single salient characteristic.
But humans are peculiar as a highly salient characteristic feature of human beings is rationality.
A particularly salient characteristic is the shared capacity for secondary growth between conifers and dicotyledons, which is the basis for wood formation [ 34, 35].
The Times immediately noticed the most salient characteristic: "A feature of the plan is the absence of little air shafts scattered throughout".
