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New American Oxford Dictionary

irrelevance

ir rel e vance |iˈreləvəns ɪˈreləvəns | noun the quality or state of being irrelevant: the document was withheld on grounds of irrelevance. a person or thing that is irrelevant: he regarded religion as an irrelevance. DERIVATIVES irrelevancy noun ( pl. irrelevancies )

 

Oxford Dictionary

irrelevance

ir |rele |vance |ɪˈrɛlɪv (ə )ns | noun [ mass noun ] the quality or state of being irrelevant: the document was withheld on grounds of irrelevance. [ count noun ] a person or thing that is irrelevant: he regarded religion as an irrelevance. DERIVATIVES irrelevancy noun ( pl. irrelevancies )

 

Oxford Thesaurus

irrelevance

irrelevance noun people are bored at school because of the irrelevance of the curriculum to their own life: inapplicability, unconnectedness, unrelatedness, peripherality, extraneousness; inappropriateness, inappositeness, inaptness; unimportance, inconsequentiality, insignificance; rare impertinence. ANTONYMS relevance.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

irrelevance

ir rel e vance まれ -van cy /ɪréləv (ə )ns //-v (ə )nsi /名詞 ⦅主に書 ⦆1 U 的はずれ, 見当違い, 不適切, 無関係, «…の » 関連性のなさ «of » .2 C ⦅否定的に ⦆的はずれな事柄 [意見など ], 無関係な [重要でない ]事 [人 ].