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APPLICABILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand
Synonyms:
applicability; pertinence; pertinency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("applicability" is a kind of...):
relevance; relevancy (the relation of something to the matter at hand)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "applicability"):
germaneness (pertinence by virtue of a close relation to the matter at hand)
Antonym:
inapplicability (irrelevance by virtue of being inapplicable to the matter at hand)
Derivation:
applicable (capable of being applied; having relevance)