relevance

Questions about relevance

What is another word for relevance?

It depends which relevance you mean. In the sense “the relation of something to the matter at hand”, the synonyms are relevancy. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of relevance?

The recorded antonym is irrelevance. Opposites are sense-specific too: this page shows which meaning each one is the opposite of, because a word rarely has a single opposite that holds for all of its senses.

Where do the synonyms for relevance come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of relevance

• Full entry for relevanceAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for relevanceWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.