pertinence

1. 1.

   relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand

   Synonymsapplicabilitypertinency

   Broaderrelevance

   Narrowergermaneness

Other forms of pertinence

plural

pertinences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pertinence

What does pertinence mean?

pertinence means "relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand".

How many syllables are in pertinence?

pertinence has 3 syllables: per-ti-nence. The stress falls on "per".

What is another word for pertinence?

Close synonyms include applicability, pertinency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pertinence a common word?

pertinence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.