IRRELEVANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irrelevancy mean? 

• IRRELEVANCY (noun)
  The noun IRRELEVANCY has 1 sense:

1. the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand

  Familiarity information: IRRELEVANCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRRELEVANCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

irrelevance; irrelevancy

Hypernyms ("irrelevancy" is a kind of...):

unconnectedness (the lack of a connection between things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "irrelevancy"):

inapplicability (irrelevance by virtue of being inapplicable to the matter at hand)

immateriality (complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration)

Derivation:

irrelevant (having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue)