Crossword clues for relevancy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Relevance \Rel"e*vance\ (r?l"?*vans), Relevancy \Rel"e*van*cy\ (-van*s?), n.
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The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency; applicability.
Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore.
--Poe. (Scots Law) Sufficiency to infer the conclusion.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal Scotland English) sufficiency (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal pertinence. (from 16th c.) 2 (context uncountable English) The degree to which a thing is relevant; relevance, applicability. (from 17th c.) 3 (context countable English) A relevant thing. (from 19th c.)
WordNet
n. the relation of something to the matter at hand [syn: relevance] [ant: irrelevance]
Usage examples of "relevancy".
They bear, in the context of these infantile biographical associations, no anagogical, transpersonal relevancy whatsoever, but are allegorical merely of childhood desires frustrated by actual or imagined parental prohibitions and threats.
According to the Law of Contagion any two objects which have ever been in contact with each other have an affinity for each other which is directly proportional to the product of the degree of relevancy of the contact and the length of time they were in contact and inversely proportional to the length of time since they have ceased to be in contact.
And whenever anything is experienced that way, simply in and for and as itself, without reference to any concepts, relevancies, or practical relationships, such a moment of sheer aesthetic arrest throws the viewer back for an instant upon his own existence without meaning.
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.