Irrelevance
noun
The quality of having no significance or importance.
His comments on the matter had an air of irrelevance.
Often appears as...
- utter irrelevance
- perceived irrelevance
noun
The state of being not highly related or applicable to the matter at hand.
The irrelevance of his remarks to the discussion was obvious.
Often appears as...
- apparent irrelevance
- surprising irrelevance
noun
The quality of having no significance or importance.
His comments on the matter had an air of irrelevance.
Often appears as...
- utter irrelevance
- perceived irrelevance
noun
The state of being not highly related or applicable to the matter at hand.
The irrelevance of his remarks to the discussion was obvious.
Often appears as...
- apparent irrelevance
- surprising irrelevance
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Lack of Impact
Use 'irrelevance' to stress that something doesn't affect a situation or outcome.
Despite the outcry, the celebrity's opinion remained an irrelevance to the court's decision.
Pro Tip 2/3Dismissive Tone
'Irrelevance' often implies disregard for the unimportant element.
The teacher dismissed the student's tangent as an irrelevance during the lecture.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Connotation
Sometimes 'irrelevance' is used neutrally, without criticizing the subject itself.
The old law was an irrelevance in the modern digital age, so it was revoked.
Pro Tip 1/3Lack of Impact
Use 'irrelevance' to stress that something doesn't affect a situation or outcome.
Despite the outcry, the celebrity's opinion remained an irrelevance to the court's decision.
Pro Tip 2/3Dismissive Tone
'Irrelevance' often implies disregard for the unimportant element.
The teacher dismissed the student's tangent as an irrelevance during the lecture.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Connotation
Sometimes 'irrelevance' is used neutrally, without criticizing the subject itself.
The old law was an irrelevance in the modern digital age, so it was revoked.
Pro Tip 1/3Lack of Impact
Use 'irrelevance' to stress that something doesn't affect a situation or outcome.
Despite the outcry, the celebrity's opinion remained an irrelevance to the court's decision.
Pro Tip 2/3Dismissive Tone
'Irrelevance' often implies disregard for the unimportant element.
The teacher dismissed the student's tangent as an irrelevance during the lecture.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Connotation
Sometimes 'irrelevance' is used neutrally, without criticizing the subject itself.
The old law was an irrelevance in the modern digital age, so it was revoked.
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Susan Etlinger: What do...
And what I admire and appreciate about this project, aside from the fact, including the fact that it's based on real human need, is that it's a fantastic example of courage in the face of a sea of irrelevance.
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Susan Etlinger: What do...
And what I admire and appreciate about this project, aside from the fact, including the fact that it's based on real human need, is that it's a fantastic example of courage in the face of a sea of irrelevance.
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Michael Portillo
British Journalist
If the Tories and Lib Dems fought together, they'd keep their ministerial offices and limousines, and continue to do the right things for the U.K. But too many backbenchers in both parties yearn for Opposition, preferring hallucinogenic ideological purity and political irrelevance to the mucky reality of governing.
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John Lithgow
American Actor
Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.
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Winona LaDuke
American Activist
We filed a constitutional rights lawsuit on my reservation, and I had to go out and interview all these old people. And I found that many of the old people on my reservation didn't know who was president. That kind of pointed out to me the irrelevance at times of who is in Washington.
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Gary Hamel
American Businessman
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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Jane Smiley
American Writer
Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.
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Patrick Lencioni
American Writer
Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.
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David Blunkett
British Politician
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
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Ruth Porat
American Businesswoman
Incrementalism in technology leads to irrelevance; what you need is revolutionary change.
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Janet Frame
New Zealander Novelist
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
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Joe Gebbia
American Designer
The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.
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Michael Portillo
British Journalist
If the Tories and Lib Dems fought together, they'd keep their ministerial offices and limousines, and continue to do the right things for the U.K. But too many backbenchers in both parties yearn for Opposition, preferring hallucinogenic ideological purity and political irrelevance to the mucky reality of governing.
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John Lithgow
American Actor
Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.
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Winona LaDuke
American Activist
We filed a constitutional rights lawsuit on my reservation, and I had to go out and interview all these old people. And I found that many of the old people on my reservation didn't know who was president. That kind of pointed out to me the irrelevance at times of who is in Washington.
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Gary Hamel
American Businessman
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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Jane Smiley
American Writer
Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.
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Patrick Lencioni
American Writer
Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.
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David Blunkett
British Politician
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
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Ruth Porat
American Businesswoman
Incrementalism in technology leads to irrelevance; what you need is revolutionary change.
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Janet Frame
New Zealander Novelist
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
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Joe Gebbia
American Designer
The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.
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