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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand [syn: irrelevance, irrelevancy] [ant: relevance, relevancy]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1843 1. the quality or state of being irrelevant 2. something irrelevant

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(irrelevances) 1. If you talk about the irrelevance of something, you mean that it is irrelevant. ...the utter irrelevance of the debate. ? relevance N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n 2. If you describe something as an irrelevance, you have a low opinion of it because it is not important in a situation. The Patriotic Front has been a political irrelevance. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

abnormality, anomaly, disassociation, disconnection, discreteness, disjunction, disjuncture, dissociation, immateriality, impertinence, impropriety, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inauspiciousness, inconnection, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, inconvenience, independence, indifference, ineffectuality, inexpedience, infelicity, inferiority, inopportuneness, inopportunity, insignificance, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, irrelation, irrelevancy, lateness, littleness, low priority, maladjustment, marginality, mesalliance, misalliance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, negligibility, pettiness, picayune, picayunishness, pokiness, prematurity, puniness, secondariness, separateness, slightness, smallness, uncongeniality, unconnectedness, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unimportance, unimpressiveness, unnoteworthiness, unpropitiousness, unrelatedness, unripeness, unseasonableness, unsuitability, untimeliness, wrongness