irrelevance

English

Noun

irrelevance (countable and uncountable, plural irrelevances)

1. Lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance.
   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     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.

Synonyms

• irrelevancy

Antonyms

• relevance

Related terms

• irrelevant

Translations

lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance

• Bulgarian: неуместност (bg) f (neumestnost)
• Catalan: irrellevància f
• Dutch: irrelevantie f
• Finnish: epäolennaisuus (fi), merkityksettömyys
• French: non-pertinence f, insignifiance (fr) f
• Galician: irrelevancia f
• German: Bedeutungslosigkeit (de) f, Unmaßgeblichkeit f, Unbedeutendheit f, Irrelevanz (de) f
• Italian: irrilevanza (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: irrelevans m

  Nynorsk: irrelevans m

• Polish: nieistotność f
• Portuguese: irrelevância f
• Romanian: irelevanță f
• Slovene: irelevantnost f
• Spanish: irrelevancia (es) f
• Swedish: irrelevans (sv) c