Meaning & use
relevance
The quality of being closely connected to the matter at hand and useful for understanding or deciding it.
See it in a sentence
The lawyer questioned the relevance of the old photograph to the current case.
Teachers try to show students the relevance of history to problems people face today.
A note on using this word
Relevance is often used with the preposition to, as in relevance to a topic, rather than relevance for.
Words with a similar meaning
pertinenceapplicabilitysignificance
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Words with an opposite meaning
irrelevance
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