Usually means: Lack of significance or pertinence.
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  1. irrelevance: Merriam-Webster
  2. irrelevance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. irrelevance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. irrelevance: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. irrelevance: Wordnik
  7. irrelevance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. irrelevance: Wiktionary
  9. irrelevance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. irrelevance: Infoplease Dictionary
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  15. irrelevance: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  17. Irrelevance: Wordnik
  18. irrelevance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ noun:  Lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance.

Similar:
irrelevancy, irrelevency, impertinence, irrelation, impertinency, irrelativeness, pertinency, relevancy, relavence, relevance, more...

Opposite:
relevance, importance, significance, pertinence

Types:
digression, red herring, ad hominem, ad populum, slippery slope, false dilemma, circular argument, fallacy of sunk, more...

Phrases:
irrelevance result, more...

Adjectives:
apparent, political, total, complete, own, utter, social, essential, general, practical, sheer

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Similar:
irrelevancy, irrelevency, impertinence, irrelation, impertinency, irrelativeness, pertinency, relevancy, relavence, relevance, more...

Opposite:
relevance, importance, significance, pertinence

Types:
digression, red herring, ad hominem, ad populum, slippery slope, false dilemma, circular argument, fallacy of sunk, more...

Phrases:
irrelevance result, more...

Adjectives:
apparent, political, total, complete, own, utter, social, essential, general, practical, sheer

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     mauve,     puce,     chartreuse, more...



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