Dictionary Definition
irrelevance n : the lack of a relation of
something to the matter at hand [syn: irrelevancy] [ant: relevance]
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Translations
lack of relationship with the topic at hand,
lack of importance
- Dutch: irrelevantie
- German: Irrelevanz
- Portuguese: irrelevância
- Swedish: irrelevans
Synonyms, Antonyms 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