relevance

Noun

Meaning

Alt. of Relevancy

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bearing pertinence association value importance connection relation consequence significance import applicability appropriateness relevancy appositeness felicity
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Antonyms

irrelevance malice independence hostility animosity enmity
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Hypernyms

connexion connection connectedness

Hyponyms

point applicability materiality cogency pertinence pertinency

Related terms

relevant

Phrases with the word

definite relevance clear relevance apparent relevance direct relevance perceived relevance have relevance

Examples

Theory should be ever more demanding of our empirical resources. Simultaneously, data should be ever more demanding of the empirical relevance of theory and of the theorist's expertise in working imaginatively on problems of the world, rather than on stylized problems of the imagination. Vernon L. Smith

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets. Bernard Bailyn

My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy. James Meade

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. Susan Sontag

The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant. Richard Hofstadter

We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying. Susan Sontag

Close letter words and terms

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