relevance

English

Alternative forms

• relevancy (much less common)

Etymology

relevant +‎ -ance.

Noun

relevance (usually uncountable, plural relevances)

1. The property or state of being relevant or pertinent.

Synonyms

• bearing
• pertinence

Antonyms

• irrelevance

Related terms

• relevant

Translations

property or state of being relevant, pertinency

• Arabic: عَلَاقَة‏‎ f (ʿalāqa), صِلَة‏‎ f (ṣila)
• Catalan: rellevància f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 相關性 (zh), 相关性 (zh) (xiāngguānxìng)

• Finnish: relevanssi (fi), asiaankuuluvuus
• French: pertinence (fr) f
• German: Relevanz (de) f, Aktualität (de) f, Belang (de) m
• Greek: σχέση (el) f (schési), συνάφεια (el) f (synáfeia)
• Irish: ábharthacht f
• Italian: rilevanza (it)

• Japanese: 関連性 (かんれんせい, kanrensei)
• Manx: bentynys m
• Maori: hāngaitanga
• Portuguese: relevância (pt) f
• Romanian: relevanță (ro) f, pertinență (ro) f
• Russian: актуа́льность (ru) f (aktuálʹnostʹ), уме́стность (ru) f (uméstnostʹ), релева́нтность (ru) f (relevántnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: relevantnost (sh), važnost (sh), umjesnost (sh)
• Spanish: relevancia (es) f
• Swedish: relevans (sv) c
• Turkish: ilgililik (tr)

Further reading

• relevance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• relevance in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Czech

Noun

relevance f

1. relevance

Related terms

• relevantní
• irelevantní