Irrelevancy (Noun)
Meaning
The lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand.
Classification
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.
Examples
- The detective painstakingly sifted through evidence, discarding items due to irrelevancy to the case at hand.
- Her tangent about her cat's birthday was an amusing irrelevancy during the tense business meeting.
- The jury was cautioned to disregard testimony deemed to be an irrelevancy in the defendant's trial.
- A list of favorite foods was deemed an irrelevancy in a job interview for a programmer position.
- The instructor struggled to refocus the class discussion after a lengthy irrelevancy about his weekend.