relevancy

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English relevant English -cy English relevancy From relevant + -cy.

1. Sufficiency (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal pertinence.
2. 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.”

3. 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 itself all day long in turning four-foot pigs of thought into thirty-foot bars of conversational railroad iron by attenuation; when subjects were seldom faithfully stuck to, but the talk wandered all around and arrived nowhere; when conversations consisted mainly of irrelevancies, with here and there a relevancy, a relevancy with an embarrassed look, as not being able to explain how it got there.”