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irrelevency

irrelevency is the misspelling of irrelevancy.

Meaning of irrelevancy

Noun

irrelevancy (countable and uncountable, plural irrelevancies)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; lack of pertinence or connection.
  2. (countable) 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

Questions about irrelevency

What is irrelevency the misspelling of?
Irrelevency is the misspelling of irrelevancy.

Words near irrelevency in the dictionary

  1. irrelevances
  2. irrelevancies
  3. irrelevancy
  4. irrelevant
  5. irrelevantly
  6. irrelevency
  7. irreliable
  8. irrelievable
  9. irreligion
  10. irreligionism
  11. irreligionist

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