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1 Pertinence -- rank: 1000

Pertinence definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PER'TINENCE PER'TINENCY, n ... of being applicable to the matter at hand [syn: applicability, pertinence, pertinency] [ant: inapplicability] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1659 the ... or state of being pertinent ; relevance Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pertinence Per"ti*nence, Pertinency Per"ti*nen*cy, n. [Cf. F. pertinence. See Pertinent.] The quality or state of being pertinent; justness ...

2 pertinency -- rank: 588

... of being applicable to the matter at hand [syn: applicability, pertinence, pertinency] [ant: inapplicability] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1598 pertinence Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pertinence Per"ti*nence, Pertinency Per"ti*nen*cy, n. [Cf. F. pertinence. See Pertinent.] The quality or state of being pertinent; justness ... discourse. --Bentley. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. See pertinence

3 Relevance -- rank: 453

... of being relevant, or of affording relief or aid. 2. Pertinence; applicableness. 3. In Scots law, sufficiency to infer the conclusion ... the matter at hand b. practical and especially social applicability ; pertinence < giving relevance to college courses > 2. the ability (as of ... import, intension, interest, lexical meaning, literal meaning, materiality, meaning, overtone, pertinence, pith, point, practical consequence, propriety, purport, qualification, range of meaning ...

4 Pertinent -- rank: 358

... were to the point" 2: being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative ... the matter in hand; apposite. 2 to the point. Derivatives: pertinence n. pertinency n. pertinently adv. Etymology: ME f. OF pertinent ...

5 Pertinacy -- rank: 358

... Per"ti*na*cy, n. [L. pertinere to pertain. See Pertinence.] The quality or state of being pertinent; pertinence. [Obs.] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pertinacy Per"ti*na*cy ...

6 Fitness -- rank: 358

... of English Synonyms n. 1. Suitableness, adaptation, aptness, aptitude, appropriateness, pertinence, propriety. 2. Qualification, preparation. Moby Thesaurus Hygeia, ability, ableness, acceptability ... maturity, meetness, mental health, niceness, normality, normativeness, opportuneness, order, percentage, pertinence, physical condition, physical fitness, politicness, pregnancy, preparedness, proficiency, profit, profitability ...

7 Reference -- rank: 226

... materiality, meaning, mention, naming, notation, note, notification, overtone, particular, patronage, pertinence, phase, phasis, pith, point, practical consequence, punctuation, punctuation marks, purport ...

8 Purport -- rank: 226

... meaning, literal meaning, matter, mean, meaning, meat, message, ostensible, overtone, pertinence, pith, plan, point, postulated, practical consequence, presupposed, pretend, pretended, pretext ...

9 Point -- rank: 226

... peak, pebble, peg, pencil, peninsula, pepper, percentage, period, person, persona, pertinence, pertinent, pi, pic, pica, pico, piece of advice, pigsticker, pike ...

10 Pith -- rank: 226

... nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, omphalos, overtone, paper pulp, paste, pertinence, pivot, plaster, pluck, pluckiness, point, porridge, postulate, poultice, practical consequence ...

11 overtone -- rank: 226

... milieu, monotone, monotony, note, nuance, occult meaning, partial, partial tone, pertinence, pitch, pith, point, practical consequence, presumption, presupposition, purport, quality, range ...

12 literal meaning -- rank: 226

... meaning, idea, impact, implication, import, intension, lexical meaning, meaning, overtone, pertinence, pith, point, practical consequence, purport, range of meaning, real meaning ...

13 Interest -- rank: 226

... aims, personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, persuade, persuasive, pertain to, pertinence, phony dividend, pickings, piece, pique, plaque, plum, point, political party ...

14 Inapplicability -- rank: 226

... of being inapplicable to the matter at hand [ant: applicability, pertinence, pertinency] Merriam Webster's noun see inapplicable Webster's 1913 ...

15 Import -- rank: 226

... pass the buck, passage, passing over, penetration, percolation, perfuse, perfusion, pertinence, pith, point, point indirectly to, practical consequence, precedence, preeminence, presume ...