irrelevancyn.
/ɪˈrɛlɪvənsi/ = irrelevance n.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [noun] > irrelevancy
impertinency1569
irrelevancy1592
impertinence1616
inapplicability1673
inconsequentness1727
inapplicationa1806
inconsequence1842
irrelevance1842
far-fetchednessa1849
inconsequentiality1850
inappositeness1893
inconsequentialism1893
inconsequentialness1931
non-status1964
1592 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1597) §151 Seeing that diverse exceptiones and objectiones risis vpon criminall libelles..be alleged irrelevancie thereof.
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. ix. v. v. 576 In the following modes of collection..the plague of irrelevancy is in a manner unknown.
1833 C. Lamb Pop. Fallacies ix, in Last Ess. Elia 243 The utter and inextricable irrelevancy of the second [member of the question].
1876 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1877) i. 7 To use the weapons of one of these societies against a sin or error in the other society, is a total irrelevancy and misapplication.
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