relevance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rel=e=vance

CIDE DICTIONARY

relevance, n. 

•  The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency; applicability.  [1913 Webster]

  "Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore."  [1913 Webster]
•  Sufficiency to infer the conclusion.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

relevance

account, admissibility, advantage, affective meaning, affinity, applicability, application, appositeness, appropriateness, aptitude, aptness, bearing, coloring, concern, concernment, connection, connotation, consequence, denotation, drift, effect, essence, extension, felicity, fitness, fittedness, force, germaneness, gist, grammatical meaning, idea, impact, implication, import, intension, interest, lexical meaning, literal meaning, materiality, meaning, overtone, pertinence, pith, point, practical consequence, propriety, purport, qualification, range of meaning, real meaning, reference, referent, regard, relatedness, relation, respect, scope, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, service, serviceability, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, span of meaning, spirit, structural meaning, substance, suitability, suitableness, sum, sum and substance, symbolic meaning, tenor, tie-in, totality of associations, transferred meaning, unadorned meaning, undertone, use, usefulness, utility, value