irrelevancenoun [ C or U ]
uk/ɪˈrel.ə.vəns/us/ɪˈrel.ə.vəns/formal irrelevancy, uk/-vən.si/usthe fact that something is not related to what is being discussed or considered and therefore not important, or an example of this:
Sympathy is an irrelevance - we need practical help.
Many of these problems may simply fade into irrelevance when the new rules come into force.
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Irrelevant
- a fifth/third wheel idiom
- be neither here nor there idiom
- be no object idiom
- beside
- enter into sth
- immaterial
- irrelevant
- make no odds idiom
- moot
- neither
- nothing
- object
- odds
- out of the picture idiom
- prejudice
- red herring
- tangential
- unconnected
- unrelated
- wheel
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