relevancy

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relevancy

  • /ˈɹɛlɪvənsi/

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From relevant + -cy.

noun relevancies

  1. Scotland, countable, uncountable Sufficiency (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal pertinence.
  2. uncountable The degree to which a thing is relevant; relevance, applicability. It is the malpractice of the courts to confine evidence and discussion to the bounds of apparent relevancy.
  3. countable A relevant thing. To believe that such talk really ever came out of people's mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say; when it was the custom to spread a two-minute remark out to ten; when a man's mouth was a rolling-mill, and busied it

Opposite: irrelevancy

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noun

Opposite: irrelevancy

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noun the degrees to which a thing is relevant

Françaispertinence

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"relevancy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/relevancy. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{relevancy_2026,
  title = {relevancy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/relevancy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}