relevancy

Noun

relevancy (countable and uncountable, plural relevancies)

1. (Scotland) Sufficiency (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal pertinence.
2. (uncountable) The degree to which a thing is relevant; relevance, applicability.
   • It is the malpractice of the courts to confine evidence and discussion to the bounds of apparent relevancy.1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Myster of Marie Rogêt
3. (countable) A relevant thing.
   • To believe that such talk really ever came out of people's mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say; when it was the custom to spread a two-minute remark out to ten; when a man's mouth was a rolling-mill, and busied...1895, Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences