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relevance
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun relevance has 1 sense
- relevance(n = noun.linkdef) relevancy - the relation of something to the matter at hand; Array is a kind of connectedness, connection, connexion
has particulars: materiality, cogency, point, applicability, pertinence, pertinency
Antonym: irrelevance
Derived form adjective relevant1
CIDE DICTIONARY
relevance, n.
- The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency; applicability. [1913 Webster]"Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore." [1913 Webster]
- Sufficiency to infer the conclusion. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
relevance
account, admissibility, advantage, affective meaning, affinity, applicability, application, appositeness, appropriateness, aptitude, aptness, bearing, coloring, concern, concernment, connection, connotation, consequence, denotation, drift, effect, essence, extension, felicity, fitness, fittedness, force, germaneness, gist, grammatical meaning, idea, impact, implication, import, intension, interest, lexical meaning, literal meaning, materiality, meaning, overtone, pertinence, pith, point, practical consequence, propriety, purport, qualification, range of meaning, real meaning, reference, referent, regard, relatedness, relation, respect, scope, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, service, serviceability, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, span of meaning, spirit, structural meaning, substance, suitability, suitableness, sum, sum and substance, symbolic meaning, tenor, tie-in, totality of associations, transferred meaning, unadorned meaning, undertone, use, usefulness, utility, value
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