Usually means: Relevance or applicability to matter.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. pertinence: Merriam-Webster
  2. pertinence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pertinence: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pertinence: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pertinence, pertinence: Wordnik
  6. pertinence: Wiktionary
  7. pertinence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Pertinence, pertinence: Dictionary.com
  9. Pertinence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Pertinence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. pertinence: Rhymezone
  12. Pertinence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. pertinence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. pertinence: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pertinence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. pertinence: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pertinence: Legal dictionary

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  1. pertinence: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pertinence)

▸ noun:  The quality of being pertinent.

Similar:
pertinency, applicability, pertinentness, pertinacy, relevance, relavence, relevancy, impertinence, importantness, poignance, more...

Opposite:
irrelevance, irrelevancy

Types:
relevance, importance, significance, meaning, purpose, more...

Adjectives:
particular, special, equal, greater, little, more, direct, immediate, obvious, real, contemporary



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Similar:
pertinency, applicability, pertinentness, pertinacy, relevance, relavence, relevancy, impertinence, importantness, poignance, more...

Opposite:
irrelevance, irrelevancy

Types:
relevance, importance, significance, meaning, purpose, more...

Adjectives:
particular, special, equal, greater, little, more, direct, immediate, obvious, real, contemporary



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