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Pertinency

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The quality of being pertinent to the matter at hand; relevance.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Pertinence.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand

Word Usage

"With a writer of my prosaic literalness and pertinency of point of view, this all shoves toward grossness — positively even towards the far more damnable closeness."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

relevance relevancy

Hyponym

germaneness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

relation

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

commodiousness relevancy cyclopedia counter-question elegancy