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The quality of actually mattering, which most meetings lack entirely.
means The quality of being directly relevant to the matter at hand — bearing on it rather than near it.
from Traces back to Latin pertinere, 'to reach to, extend to, belong to' — a compound of per- ('through') and tenere ('to hold'). So at its root, something pertinent is something that holds all the way through to the point, rather than trailing off before it gets there.
- root
- From Latin pertinere, to extend toward or belong
- relevance's
- stricter cousin, demands direct bearing, not mere connection
- legal use
- courts exclude evidence lacking pertinence to the case
- rare trait
- easier to define than to actually achieve