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irrelevance

irrelevance noun: lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance.

Noun

irrelevance (countable and uncountable, plural irrelevances)

  1. Lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance.
    • 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...2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
    Synonyms:
    irrelevancy

irrelevance meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

irrelevance in Tamil

பொருத்தமின்மை, சம்பந்தமின்மை, அசமந்தம்

irrelevance in Malayalam

unrelatedness, inapplicability, inappropriateness
അപ്രസക്തി, പ്രസക്തിയില്ലായ്മ, അസാംഗത്യം, അസംബന്ധം, യുക്തിഭംഗം, പൊരുത്തമില്ലായ്മ

irrelevance in Kannada

ಅಪ್ರಸಕ್ತತೆ, ಅಸಂಬದ್ಧತೆ, ಅಪ್ರಸ್ತುತತೆ

Synonyms of irrelevance

Antonyms

Forms of irrelevance

pluralirrelevances

Questions about irrelevance

What does irrelevance mean?
Irrelevance means lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance.
What is irrelevance in Tamil?
Irrelevance in Tamil is பொருத்தமின்மை, சம்பந்தமின்மை, அசமந்தம். See Irrelevance meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is irrelevance?
Irrelevance is a noun.
What is the plural of irrelevance?
The plural of irrelevance is irrelevances.

Words near irrelevance in the dictionary

  1. irrelative
  2. irrelatively
  3. irrelativeness
  4. irrelativity
  5. irrelephant
  6. irrelevance
  7. irrelevances
  8. irrelevancies
  9. irrelevancy
  10. irrelevant
  11. irrelevantly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: irrelevance (page history and authors); irrelevance (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); irrelevance (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); irrelevance (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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