Meaning & use

relevancy

noun·Academic

The quality of being closely connected or directly applicable to the matter at hand.

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The lawyer questioned the relevancy of the old photograph to the current case.

Editors judge each submission partly on its relevancy to current readers' interests.

A note on using this word

Relevancy is an older, less common variant of relevance; the two words are used interchangeably in modern writing.

Words with a similar meaning

relevanceapplicability

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Words with an opposite meaning

irrelevance

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