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applicability vs relevance

relevance vs applicability

applicability and relevance both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
applicability Yes No No No
relevance Yes No No No
As nouns, relevance is a hypernym of applicability; that is, relevance is a word with a broader meaning than applicability:
  • applicability: relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand
  • relevance: the relation of something to the matter at hand
Other hypernyms of applicability include relevancy.
applicability (noun) relevance (noun)
relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand the relation of something to the matter at hand
Difference between applicability and relevance

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