irrelevance

[ ih-rel-uh-vuh ns ]

/ ɪˈrɛl ə vəns /

the quality or condition of being irrelevant.

an irrelevant thing, act, etc.

Origin of irrelevance

1840–50; ir-² + relevance; see relevant

He worried that "we were on the verge of irrelevance a lot in our lives."

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Had she not gone into the coalition and gotten something near the center of power, she would have quickly faded into irrelevance.

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One could just ignore the hyperbole and watch it follow similar groups down the path to irrelevance.

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So it would be ignored, discarded, thrown into the bin of irrelevance.

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Obama would do right to address any fears of irrelevance, which he—inadvertently—helped stoke by postponing his trip twice.

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But the deepest annoyance arising from the miracles would be the irrelevance of the issue raised by them.

Preface to Androcles and the Lion |George Bernard Shaw
That is for us so obvious a suggestion that one wonders at the tacit assumption of its irrelevance.

English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century |Leslie Stephen
The reader may be safely left to perceive the irrelevance and the emptiness of such "may-be-saids."

The Color Line |William Benjamin Smith
Mr. Allen, it appeared, had "acted foolish" and been reproved by the Coroner, first for irrelevance and then for impertinence.

The Devil's Garden |W. B. Maxwell
He supposed the old man—intuitively—had decided a laugh was needed to clear the air of the quarrel and irrelevance.

The Syndic |C.M. Kornbluth