irrelevance

English

Noun

irrelevance (countable and uncountable, plural irrelevances)

Lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance.
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
  It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.

Synonyms

irrelevancy

Antonyms

relevance

Related terms

irrelevant

Translations

lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance

Catalan: irrellevància f
Dutch: irrelevantie
Finnish: epäolennaisuus (fi), merkityksettömyys
French: non-pertinence f, insignifiance (fr) f
German: Irrelevanz (de) f
Italian: irrilevanza (it) f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: irrelevans m

Nynorsk: irrelevans m

Portuguese: irrelevância f
Romanian: irelevanță f
Slovene: irelevantnost f
Spanish: irrelevancia (es) f
Swedish: irrelevans (sv)

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