What does "irrelevance" mean?

Lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance.

Irrelevance

Q: What is a synonym for "irrelevance"?

Common synonyms include: irrelevancy, irrelevancy, abnormality, anomaly, disassociation, disconnection.

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Noun

1
Lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance. countable, uncountable
"It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment."
2
the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand wordnet

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irrelevancy irrelevancy abnormality anomaly disassociation disconnection

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relevance

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"It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment."

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