irrelevance

irrelevance
Synonyms and related words:
abnormality, anomaly, disassociation, disconnection, discreteness, disjunction, disjuncture, dissociation, immateriality, impertinence, impropriety, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inauspiciousness, inconnection, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, inconvenience, independence, indifference, ineffectuality, inexpedience, infelicity, inferiority, inopportuneness, inopportunity, insignificance, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, irrelation, irrelevancy, lateness, littleness, low priority, maladjustment, marginality, mesalliance, misalliance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, negligibility, pettiness, picayune, picayunishness, pokiness, prematurity, puniness, secondariness, separateness, slightness, smallness, uncongeniality, unconnectedness, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unimportance, unimpressiveness, unnoteworthiness, unpropitiousness, unrelatedness, unripeness, unseasonableness, unsuitability, untimeliness, wrongness

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • irrelevance — UK [ɪˈreləvəns] / US or irrelevancy UK [ɪˈreləvənsɪ] / US noun Word forms irrelevance : singular irrelevance plural irrelevances a) [uncountable] the fact of being not relevant The irrelevance of his replies indicated that he wasn t listening. b) …   English dictionary

  • irrelevance — ir·rel·e·vance /ir re lə vəns/ n 1: the quality or state of being irrelevant 2: something that is irrelevant Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

  • irrelevance — irrelevance, irrelevancy Both words are in use and there is no distinction in their meaning, but irrelevance is more common …   Modern English usage

  • irrelevance — (n.) 1735, from IRRELEVANT (Cf. irrelevant) + ANCE (Cf. ance). Earlier in the same sense was irrelevancy (1590s) …   Etymology dictionary

  • irrelevance — [[t]ɪre̱lɪv(ə)ns[/t]] irrelevances 1) N UNCOUNT: oft N of n If you talk about the irrelevance of something, you mean that it is irrelevant. ...the utter irrelevance of the debate. Ant: relevance 2) N COUNT If you describe something as an… …   English dictionary

  • irrelevance — ir|rel|e|vance [ıˈrelıvəns] n also ir|rel|e|van|cy [ vənsi] 1.) [U] a lack of importance in a particular situation 2.) someone or something that is not important in a particular situation irrelevance of ▪ debates on the irrelevance of the… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • irrelevance — ir|rel|e|vance [ ı reləvəns ] or ir|rel|e|van|cy [ ı reləvənsi ] noun uncount the fact of being not relevant: The irrelevance of his replies indicated that he wasn t listening. a. count something that is not important or necessary to a particular …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • irrelevance — also ir.rel.e.van.cy noun 1 (U) a lack of importance in a particular situation: The irrelevance of his remark irritated her. 2 (C) someone or something that is not important in a particular situation …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • irrelevance — irrelevant ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not relevant. DERIVATIVES irrelevance noun irrelevancy noun (pl. irrelevancies) irrelevantly adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • irrelevance — noun Date: 1843 1. the quality or state of being irrelevant 2. something irrelevant …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • irrelevance — /i rel euh veuhns/, n. 1. the quality or condition of being irrelevant. 2. an irrelevant thing, act, etc. [1840 50; IR 2 + RELEVANCE] * * * …   Universalium

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