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irrelevances

irrelevances is the plural of irrelevance.

Meaning of irrelevance

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

Questions about irrelevances

What is irrelevances the plural of?
Irrelevances is the plural of irrelevance.

Words near irrelevances in the dictionary

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

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