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[ ih-rel-uh-vuhns ] / ɪˈrɛl ə vəns / SEE SYNONYMS FOR irrelevance ON THESAURUS.COM
nounthe quality or condition of being irrelevant. an irrelevant thing, act, etc. Origin of irrelevance1840–50; ir-2 + relevance; see relevant Words nearby irrelevanceirregular galaxy, irregularity, irregular variable, irregular verb, irrelative, irrelevance, irrelevancy, irrelevant, irrelievable, irreligion, irreligious Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for irrelevanceHe worried that "we were on the verge of irrelevance a lot in our lives." U2 Drops ‘Invisible’ to Remind You the Band Exists|Howard Wolfson|February 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST Had she not gone into the coalition and gotten something near the center of power, she would have quickly faded into irrelevance. Good For Livni And Good For Peace|Brent E. Sasley|February 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST One could just ignore the hyperbole and watch it follow similar groups down the path to irrelevance. ‘Pulpit Freedom Sunday’ Pastors Don’t Care About Religious Freedom|David Sessions|October 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST So it would be ignored, discarded, thrown into the bin of irrelevance. Junior Seau’s Suicide Circus: Why We Love the Violence of Football|Buzz Bissinger|May 4, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Obama would do right to address any fears of irrelevance, which he—inadvertently—helped stoke by postponing his trip twice. Obama's Awkward Indonesia Trip|Sahil Mahtani, Kenneth Weisbrode|November 7, 2010|DAILY BEAST But the deepest annoyance arising from the miracles would be the irrelevance of the issue raised by them. Preface to Androcles and the Lion|George Bernard Shaw That is for us so obvious a suggestion that one wonders at the tacit assumption of its irrelevance. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century|Leslie Stephen The reader may be safely left to perceive the irrelevance and the emptiness of such "may-be-saids." The Color Line|William Benjamin Smith Mr. Allen, it appeared, had "acted foolish" and been reproved by the Coroner, first for irrelevance and then for impertinence. The Devil's Garden|W. B. Maxwell He supposed the old man—intuitively—had decided a laugh was needed to clear the air of the quarrel and irrelevance. The Syndic|C.M. Kornbluth
Words related to irrelevanceimpertinence, inappropriateness, triviality, incongruity, remoteness, insignificance, inconsistency, immateriality, inapplicability, inappositeness |