noun.
The quality of being pertinent to the matter at hand; relevance.
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noun.
relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand
Word Usage
"With a writer of my prosaic literalness and pertinency of point of view, this all shoves toward grossness — positively even towards the far more damnable closeness."