Inapplicability (Noun)
Meaning
Irrelevance by virtue of being inapplicable to the matter at hand.
Classification
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.
Examples
- The lawyer argued that the outdated law had no bearing on the case due to its inapplicability to modern circumstances.
- The new employee struggled to see the relevance of the company's old policies, citing their inapplicability to the current project.
- The researcher had to dismiss several studies due to the inapplicability of their findings to the specific population being studied.
- The court ruled that the statute was not applicable to the case, rendering it useless due to its inapplicability.
- The inapplicability of the traditional methods to the novel problem led the team to think outside the box and develop a new approach.