irrelevance
pronunciation
How to pronounce irrelevance in British English:
UK [ɪˈreləvəns]
How to pronounce irrelevance in American English:
US [ɪˈrɛləvəns]
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- Noun:
- the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand
Word Origin
- irrelevance (n.)
- 1735, from irrelevant + -ance. Earlier in the same sense was irrelevancy (1590s).
Example
- 1. If the negotiations try to achieve one , they will quickly return to deadlocked irrelevance .
- 2. One g7 source said the emergence of the g20 which includes china , india , brazil and other emerging nations meant that the g7 had to change or face irrelevance .
- 3. Isn 't the dream of socialist revolution and communist society an irrelevance in 2012 ?
- 4. Us power is being challenged across the middle east ; and europe seems intent on irrelevance .
- 5. For months now , italians have been consigning mr berlusconi and his works , if not to history , then to irrelevance .