'Relevance' definitions:
Definition of 'relevance'
(from WordNet)
noun
The relation of something to the matter at hand [syn: relevance, relevancy] [ant: irrelevance, irrelevancy]
Definition of 'Relevance'
From: GCIDE
- Relevance \Rel"e*vance\ (r?l"?*vans), Relevancy \Rel"e*van*cy\ (-van*s?), n.
- 1. The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency; applicability. [1913 Webster]
- Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore. --Poe. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Scots Law) Sufficiency to infer the conclusion. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'relevance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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