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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REL'EVANCE,
REL'EVANCY, n. [See Relevant.]
1. The state of being relevant, or of affording relief or aid.
2. Pertinence; applicableness.
3. In Scots law, sufficiency to infer the conclusion.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the relation of something to the matter at hand [syn: relevance, relevancy] [ant: irrelevance, irrelevancy]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1733 1. a. relation to the matter at hand b. practical and especially social applicability ; pertinence <giving relevance to college courses> 2. the ability (as of an information retrieval system) to retrieve material that satisfies the needs of the user

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore. --Poe. 2. (Scots Law) Sufficiency to infer the conclusion.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something's relevance to a situation or person is its importance or significance in that situation or to that person. Politicians' private lives have no relevance to their public roles... N-UNCOUNT: with supp, oft N to n

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