Meaning of Irrelevancy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; lack of pertinence or connection.
   uncountable
2. A thing that is irrelevant—having no bearing on the subject of discussion.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“To believe⟳ that such talk⟳ really ever came out of people's mouths would be to believe⟳ that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say⟳; when it was the custom to spread⟳ a two-minute remark⟳ out to ten; when a man's mouth was a rolling-mill, and busied itself all day long in turning four-foot pigs of thought into thirty-foot bars of conversational railroad iron⟳ by attenuation; when subjects were seldom faithfully stuck to, but the talk⟳ wandered all around and arrived nowhere; when conversations consisted mainly of irrelevancies, with here and there a relevancy, a relevancy with an embarrassed look⟳, as not being able to explain⟳ how it got there.”

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

CEFR level