Meaning & use
Irrelevancy
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The quality of being unrelated to the matter at hand; also, something that is unrelated or beside the point.
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The lawyer objected, calling the question an irrelevancy that had nothing to do with the case.
Critics dismissed the subplot as an irrelevancy that distracted from the film's main story.
A note on using this word
"Irrelevancy" and "irrelevance" are near-synonyms; "irrelevancy" is somewhat more common when referring to a specific irrelevant thing rather than the abstract quality.
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Words with an opposite meaning
relevancepertinence
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