Usually means: Relevance or applicability to matter.
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  1. pertinency: Merriam-Webster
  2. pertinency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pertinency: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pertinency: Vocabulary.com
  5. pertinency: Wordnik
  6. pertinency: Wiktionary
  7. pertinency: Dictionary.com
  8. Pertinency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. pertinency: Rhymezone
  10. Pertinency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. pertinency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. pertinency: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pertinency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. pertinency: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pertinency: Legal dictionary

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  1. pertinency: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (pertinency)

noun:  The quality of being pertinent to the matter at hand; relevance.
noun:  (countable, dated) Something that is relevant to the matter at hand.

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