Dictionary

irrelevance en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance.
   • It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment. 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

Forms

Antonyms

relevance

Relateds

irrelevant

Synonyms

irrelevancy

Translations (21)

nl irrelevantie (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · fi epäolennaisuus (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · pl nieistotność (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · fi merkityksettömyys (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · fr insignifiance (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · de Bedeutungslosigkeit (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · de Unmaßgeblichkeit (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · de Irrelevanz (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · sv irrelevans (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · nb irrelevans (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · nn irrelevans (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · es irrelevancia (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · it irrilevanza (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · sl irelevantnost (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · pt irrelevância (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · de Unbedeutendheit (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · gl irrelevancia (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · ca irrellevància (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · fr non-pertinence (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · bg неуместност (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance) · ro irelevanță (lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance)