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Relevance vs Expedience - What's the difference?

relevance | expedience |

As nouns the difference between relevance and expedience

is that relevance is the property or state of being relevant or pertinent while expedience is (uncountable) the quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case.

relevance

English

Alternative forms

* relevancy (much less common)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The property or state of being relevant or pertinent.
  • Synonyms

    * bearing * pertinence

    Antonyms

    * irrelevance

    expedience

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case.
  • * Sharp
  • To determine concerning the expedience of action.
  • Speed, haste or urgency.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Making hither with all due expedience .
  • * 2008 , , Wigu: Day 13: Saturday in the Park
  • We must spring into action with a relentless sense of expedience and determination!''
  • Something that is expedient.
  • (obsolete) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Forwarding this dear expedience .

    Synonyms

    * (fitness or suitableness) expediency * expediency

    References

    * OED2 * * *