relevancy
noun/ˈɹɛlɪvənsi/
Etymology From relevant + -cy.
2
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.1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Myster of Marie Rogêt:
3
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 itself all day long in turning four-foot pigs of thought into thirty-foot bars of conversational railroad iron by attenuation; when subjects were seldom faithfully stuck to, but the talk wandered all around and arrived nowhere; when conversations consisted mainly of irrelevancies, with here and there a relevancy, a relevancy with an embarrassed look, as not being able to explain how it got there.1895, Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences:
- Antonyms
- irrelevancy