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irrelevancy

noun

Etymology

From ir- + relevancy or irrelevant + -cy.

  1. borrowed from relevāns
  2. borrowed from relevant
  3. suffixed as relevancy — “relevant + cy”
  4. prefixed as irrelevancy — “in + relevancy”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable

    The quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; lack of pertinence or connection.

  2. A thing that is irrelevant—having no bearing on the subject of discussion.

    • "You've been and taken my Japanese umbrella." "I won't have him making an exhibition of himself," said Cripps, ignoring the irrelevancy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for irrelevancy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA