Irrelevance
[ɪ'rɛləvəns]
Definition
(noun.) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand.
Edited by Clio--From WordNet
Examples
- For a moment Archer fancied that Mr. Letterblair must have told her of his coming; but the irrelevance of her next remark made him change his mind. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They will help us to understand better the astonishing irrelevance of the political life of this period to the realities that rose about it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She broke off, still twinkling at him, and asked, with the casual irrelevance of old age: Now, why in the world didn't you marry my little Ellen? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- That he should be regarded as a suitor to herself would have seemed to her a ridiculous irrelevance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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