relevancy
Connection to matter
Relevancy is the quality of being relevant—connected to or bearing on the matter at hand.
The word is interchangeable with relevance, though relevance is more common in contemporary usage: The judge questioned the relevancy of the testimony.
Some style guides prefer relevance, treating relevancy as slightly old-fashioned or redundant.
Quality of being applicable
- appropriatenessQuality of being suitable
- suitabilityState of being apt
- germanenessQuality of being applicable
- bearingPosture or orientation
connection · applicability · relatedness · materiality · aptness · fitness · appositeness · pertinency
State of mattering
- consequenceResult of an action
- weightMeasure of heaviness
- impactForceful contact or consequence
- materialityState of being consequential
gravity · moment · substance · meaningfulness · noteworthiness · significance · criticality · magnitude
Medium of exchange
- currentnessState of being present-day
- topicalityPresent-day relevance
- freshnessState of being unspoiled
- immediacyQuality of being direct
newsworthiness · contemporaneity · recency · up-to-dateness · urgency · modernity · actuality · present-day
Dependent on circumstances
- circumstantialBased on inference, not proof
- contextualRelative to surrounding conditions
- domain-specificLimited to particular field
- field-specificApplicable within one discipline
environmental · background · framework · setting · scope · sphere · area · applicative
pertinence
Quality of being applicable
- appropriatenessQuality of being suitable
- suitabilityState of being apt
- germanenessQuality of being applicable
bearing · connection · applicability · relatedness · materiality · aptness · fitness · appositeness · pertinency · cogency
importance
State of mattering
- consequenceResult of an action
- weightMeasure of heaviness
- impactForceful contact or consequence
materiality · gravity · moment · substance · meaningfulness · noteworthiness · significance · criticality · magnitude · prominence
currency
Medium of exchange
- currentnessState of being present-day
- topicalityPresent-day relevance
- freshnessState of being unspoiled
immediacy · newsworthiness · contemporaneity · recency · up-to-dateness · urgency · modernity · actuality · present-day · trending
situational
Dependent on circumstances
- circumstantialBased on inference, not proof
- contextualRelative to surrounding conditions
- domain-specificLimited to particular field
field-specific · environmental · background · framework · setting · scope · sphere · area · applicative · conditional
- search technologysearch engines, search results, indexing, queries, ranking
relevancyirrelevance
Lack of pertinence
irrelevancy · inapplicability · extraneousness · tangentiality · impertinence
relevancypointlessness
State of lacking meaning
uselessness · worthlessness · futility · meaninglessness · inconsequence
relevancytangentiality
Tendency to stray from topic
inappropriateness · inaptness · unfitness · unsuitability · infelicity
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