irrelevance
Word family
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ir·rel·e·vance /ɪˈreləvəns/ AWL (also irrelevancy /-vənsi/) noun 1. [uncountable]UNIMPORTANT a lack of importance in a particular situation 不相干；无关紧要2 [countable]UNIMPORTANT someone or something that is not important in a particular situation 无关紧要的人[物]irrelevance of debates on the irrelevance of the education system 对于教育体制中无关紧要部分的争论Examples from the Corpus
irrelevance• Age is an irrelevance for most jobs.• Moral philosophers often ignore empathy as though it were an irrelevance outside their province, a matter for psychology perhaps rather than philosophy.• Pensions policy accompanied long-term labour-market trends, which increasingly confirmed the economic irrelevance of elderly workers.• Meanwhile, three other candidates demonstrated for a national television audience their growing irrelevance to the struggle for the nomination.• What can I say in answer to this charge of irrelevance?• So, the political irrelevance of our subjects did not diminish our desperation.• The irrelevance of such an attitude is obvious.ir·rel·e·vance nounChineseSyllable
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irrelevance
ir‧rel‧e‧vance AC /ɪˈreləvəns, ɪˈrelɪvəns/
(also ir‧rel‧e‧van‧cy /-vənsi/) noun
2. [countable] someone or something that is not important in a particular situation
irrelevance of
debates on the irrelevance of the education system
ir‧rel‧e‧vance AC /ɪˈreləvəns, ɪˈrelɪvəns/
(also ir‧rel‧e‧van‧cy /-vənsi/) noun Word Family: noun: relevance ≠ irrelevance; adverb: relevantly ≠ irrelevantly; adjective: relevant ≠ irrelevant
1. [uncountable] a lack of importance in a particular situation2. [countable] someone or something that is not important in a particular situation
irrelevance of