relevance

English

Alternative forms

• relevancy (much less common)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English relevant

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -iader.

Old French -ancebor.

Middle English -aunce

English -ance

English relevance

From relevant + -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛl.ɪ.vən(t)s/, /ˈɹɛl.ə.vən(t)s/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: rel‧e‧vance

Noun

relevance (usually uncountable, plural relevances)

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

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• bearing
• pertinence

Antonyms

• irrelevance

Derived terms

• biorelevance
• nonrelevance
• omnirelevance
• relevance conditional
• relevance logic

Related terms

• relevant

Translations

property or state of being relevant, pertinency

• Arabic: عَلَاقَة f (ʕalāqa), صِلَة f (ṣila)
• Bulgarian: уместност (bg) f (umestnost)
• Catalan: rellevància f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: význam (cs) m
• Dutch: relevantie (nl) f
• Finnish: asiaankuuluvuus, asianmukaisuus (fi), liittyvyys (fi), merkityksellisyys (fi), tähdellisyys (fi), oleellisuus, olennaisuus (fi), relevanssi (fi)
• 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)
• Hindi: प्रासंगिकता (prāsaṅgiktā)
• Indonesian: relevansi (id)
• Irish: ábharthacht f
• Italian: rilevanza (it), importanza (it), attualità (it)
• Japanese: 関連性 (かんれんせい, kanrensei)
• Kazakh: релеванттық (relevanttyq)
• Malay: kerelevanan
• Malayalam: പ്രസക്തി (ml) (prasakti)
• Manx: bentynys m
• Māori: hāngaitanga
• Polish: istotność (pl) f
• 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “relevance”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛlɛvant͡sɛ]

Noun

relevance f

1. relevance

Declension

Declension of relevance (soft feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	relevance	relevance
genitive	relevance	relevancí
dative	relevanci	relevancím
accusative	relevanci	relevance
vocative	relevance	relevance
locative	relevanci	relevancích
instrumental	relevancí	relevancemi

Related terms

• irelevantní
• relevantní

Further reading

• “relevance”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “relevance”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “relevance”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026