Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or state of being unrelated to a matter being considered.
- noun Something unrelated to a matter being considered.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
irrelevancy .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
lack ofrelationship with the topic at hand; lack ofimportance
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand
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Examples
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Looks like NBC's slide into ratings irrelevance is continuing.
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Can we assume that irrelevance is more likely to be signaled than relevance?
Archive 2006-10-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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For the longer that this is the prevailing wisdom inside the party, the better its chances for long-term irrelevance, or perhaps something even more deserving and delightful.
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Can we assume that irrelevance is more likely to be signaled than relevance?
AI - Mark 4 Hal Duncan 2006
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The retreat into irrelevance is visible all across the humanities curriculum.
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Danny, wrong thread dude, your irrelevance is embarrasing for you.
Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers 2005
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The retreat into irrelevance is visible all across the humanities curriculum.
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Ironically, however, as Menand also makes clear, the first general education curricula were developed precisely to combat the problem of "irrelevance" - to provide college graduates with some cohesive and coherent shared knowledge that could not be contained within disciplinary boundaries but which would, the idea was, help fit them for post-college life.
Inside Higher Ed 2010
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Ironically, however, as Menand also makes clear, the first general education curricula were developed precisely to combat the problem of "irrelevance" - to provide college graduates with some cohesive and coherent shared knowledge that could not be contained within disciplinary boundaries but which would, the idea was, help fit them for post-college life.
Inside Higher Ed 2010
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It doesn't prove that angels and demons do not exist, just their irrelevance. is relevance defined by science now?
Prolagus commented on the word irrelevance
Ugh.
November 3, 2009