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Irrelevancy definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IRREL'EVANCY, n. [from irrelevant.] Inapplicability; the quality of not being applicable, or of not serving to aid and support; as the irrelevancy of an argument or of testimony to a case in question.

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 (plural -cies) Date: 1592 irrelevance

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(irrelevancies) If you describe something as an irrelevancy, you have a low opinion of it because it is not important in a situation. Why was he wasting her time with these irrelevancies? = irrelevance N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Inapplicability, impertinency, non-pertinency.