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irrelevancy

n. 1 (label en uncountable) The quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; lack of pertinence or connection. 2 (label en countable) A thing that is irrelevant—having no bearing on the subject of discussion.

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irrelevancy

n. the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand [syn: irrelevance] [ant: relevance]

Usage examples of "irrelevancy".

And all you're doing is letting yourselves be ensnared into the irrelevancies of the slogan on the one hand and sanctified sensation on the other.

The portly white for the moment probably envied Blank his facility with the paddle, without being concerned with such irrelevancies as education.

Most sat cleaning their weapons and ignoring all attempts by officers of the militia to get them drilling or to indulge otherwise in the irrelevancies of military discipline.

Turpin was one of those formidable women with a photographic memory for all the more monumental irrelevancies of life, and she could more or less quote the date, hour and the weather conditions at the time of the delivery of each item.

So I switched the subject and squelched possibility by being difficult about irrelevancies politely offensive.

And the scholastic 'publish or perish' system that has always kept professionals too busy with irrelevancies to attend to their legitimate work.

Here, even though the timespans were measured in the millions of years, they could clearly see the enormous power of the planet, and the virtual irrelevancy of the human lives on its surface.