irrelevancy
irrelevancy noun: the quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; lack of pertinence or connection.
Noun
irrelevancy (countable and uncountable, plural irrelevancies)
- The quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; lack of pertinence or connection.
- A thing that is irrelevant—having no bearing on the subject of discussion.
- To believe that such talk really ever came out of people's mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say; when it was the custom to spread a two-minute remark out to ten; when a man's mouth was a rolling-mill, and busied...1895, Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
- "You've been and taken my Japanese umbrella." "I won't have him making an exhibition of himself," said Cripps, ignoring the irrelevancy.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 102
irrelevancy meaning in Tamil
irrelevancy in Tamil
- அசம்பந்தம், அசந்தர்ப்பம்
Synonyms of irrelevancy
Antonyms
Forms of irrelevancy
| plural | irrelevancies |
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Origin of irrelevancy
From ir- + relevancy or irrelevant + -cy.
Questions about irrelevancy
- What does irrelevancy mean?
- Irrelevancy means the quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; lack of pertinence or connection.
- What is irrelevancy in Tamil?
- Irrelevancy in Tamil is அசம்பந்தம், அசந்தர்ப்பம். See Irrelevancy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is irrelevancy?
- Irrelevancy is a noun.
- What is the plural of irrelevancy?
- The plural of irrelevancy is irrelevancies.
Words near irrelevancy in the dictionary
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