Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Irrelevance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; want of pertinence or connection.
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- noun uncountable The quality of being
irrelevant orinapplicable ; lack ofpertinence orconnection . - noun countable A thing that is
irrelevant —having nobearing on the subject of discussion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand
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Examples
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Another irrelevancy is the fact that fascists were hated by communists.
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If the use of the grotesque was a strength of Browning (as Chesterton contends against other critics), so in the case of Thackeray that which some critics have held to be a weakness -- I mean his 'irrelevancy' -- is for our critic a strength.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Patrick Braybrooke
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In recent years, the media has buzzed over the NAACP's "irrelevancy" - and even the NAACP itself raised the question over whether it was relevant as a political and social arm just two years ago.
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Another irrelevancy is the fact that fascists were hated by communists.
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He is combating the idea of irrelevancy and he has conceded that Europe has succumbed to reason and secularism.
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The charge that his irrelevancy was a weakness is based on another false but popular premise, that the direct method is always the best.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Patrick Braybrooke
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The case was brought before an Ohio judge who was irked by the "irrelevancy" of the case before him.
Change 2008
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Are we expected to find this kind of irrelevancy and tripe convincing?
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There is in these stories a curious mixture of humour, insight and pathos, with here and there a dash of grimness and a sprinkling of that charming irrelevancy which is of the essence of true humour.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 29, 1891 Various
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The day following the Court read an opinion which is a model of ambiguous and equivocal statement, but the purport was fairly clear: for the moment the Court would not interfere, and the prosecution was free to proceed as it thought best, with the warning that the Damocles sword of "irrelevancy" was suspended over its head by the barest thread and might fall at any moment.
John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court Edward Samuel Corwin 1920
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