ir·rel·e·vance

[ih-rel-uh-vuhns]
noun
1.
the quality or condition of being irrelevant.
2.
an irrelevant thing, act, etc.

Origin:
1840–50; ir-2 + relevance

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irrelevant (ɪˈrɛləvənt) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
not relating or pertinent to the matter at hand; not important
 
ir'relevance
 
n
 
ir'relevancy
 
n
 
ir'relevantly
 
adv

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Irrelevance is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
Example sentences
But increasing irrelevance isn't an enviable position, either.
In the descent of our manned space program into stultified irrelevance, we're
  all a little bit complicit.
They are surgeons, removing growths of error and irrelevance.
At that moment, the shades of mortality and irrelevance seemed to be drawing
  over the civil-rights generation.
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