Meaning & use
relevancy
The quality of being closely connected or directly applicable to the matter at hand.
See it in a sentence
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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