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irrelevancy

[ ih-rel-uh-vuh n-see ]

/ ɪˈrɛl ə vən si /

noun, plural ir·rel·e·van·cies.

irrelevance.

Origin of irrelevancy

First recorded in 1795–1805; ir-² + relevancy

Words nearby irrelevancy

irregular variable, irregular verb, irregularity, irrelative, irrelevance, irrelevancy, irrelevant, irrelievable, irreligion, irreligious, irremeable

Example sentences from the Web for irrelevancies

There were irrelevancies introduced into pictures for other purposes than that of statement.

Art |Clive Bell
Flippant interruptions the sage seemed to disregard, and if the topic dribbled out into irrelevancies he fell silent.

Dreamers of the Ghetto |I. Zangwill
Sir,—The controversy as to the legitimacy of the recent attack on Freiburg tends to stray into irrelevancies.

Letters To "The Times" Upon War And Neutrality (1881-1920) |Thomas Erskine Holland
There are, it is true, irrelevancies even in so short a work.

The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920 |Various

Ghosts, in a world where chiff-chaffs sang, were irrelevancies, even if they walked.

The Third Window |Anne Douglas Sedgwick