irrelevance
/ɪˈreləvəns/ (bre, ipa) · /ɪˈreləvəns/ (ame, ipa) · /i-ˈre-lə-vən(t)s/ (ame, mw)
irrelevance — noun
- irrelevancesingular
- irrelevancesplural
1. the state of having no useful connection to the matter people are dealing with,
the state of having no useful connection to the matter people are dealing with, or a detail dismissed because it does not affect that matter
The lawyer highlighted the irrelevance of the old parking ticket to the fraud case.
the irrelevance of [something] to [something]
Maja noted the irrelevance of the weather chart during the budget meeting.
The teacher pointed out the irrelevance of shoe colour in the science contest.
Once Omar mentioned celebrity gossip, the committee saw the speech's irrelevance to the housing plan.
The judge treated the broken coffee machine as an irrelevance in the landlord dispute.
- unimportance
plainer and broader; something can be unimportant without being off-topic
- insignificance
often stresses small effect or low value rather than lack of connection
- immateriality
more formal, especially when a fact makes no difference to a decision
- relevance
the state of clearly connecting to and mattering for the issue being discussed
文法句型
the irrelevance of [something] to [something]
treat [something] as an irrelevance in [context]
用法筆記
Most often uncountable in formal discussion, especially in patterns like 'the irrelevance of X to Y'. The countable use names a specific point that people decide can be ignored.