irrelevance
/ɪˈrɛlɪv(ə)ns
/noun [mass noun]
1The quality or state of being irrelevant: the document was withheld on grounds of irrelevance...
- An even deeper problem than the perceived illegitimacy of privatization was its frequent irrelevance.
- Particularly among young Americans, continuing the ban will put marriage on the road to cultural irrelevance.
- Consequently, they have been enabled to push back against their growing irrelevance, increasing their role in global finance.
Synonyms
inapplicability, unconnectedness, unrelatedness, peripherality, extraneousness;
inappropriateness, inappositeness, inaptness;
unimportance, inconsequentiality, insignificance
rare impertinence
1.1 [count noun] A person or thing that is irrelevant: he regarded religion as an irrelevance...
- The rest of the test was something of an irrelevance.
- The Tories, however, have moved swiftly from being an irrelevance to becoming strangely fascinating.
- Personal pride in the quality of the work you did became a sentimental irrelevance.
Derivatives
irrelevancy
/ noun (plural irrelevancies) ...- The question is, will the United Nations follow the League of Nations and risk irrelevancy.
- But it's wild generalizations like this that point up the irrelevancy of such commercially-driven lists.
- When everything is digital, the word digital becomes an irrelevancy.