irrelevance

Word family

ir·rel·e·vance /ɪˈreləvəns/ AWL (also irrelevancy /-vənsi/) noun

1. [uncountableU]UNIMPORTANT a lack of importance in a particular situation 不相干；无关紧要

2 [countableC]UNIMPORTANT someone or something that is not important in a particular situation 无关紧要的人[物]

irrelevance of

debates on the irrelevance of the education system

对于教育体制中无关紧要部分的争论

Examples from the Corpus

irrelevance• Age is an irrelevance for most jobs.• Moral philosophers often ignore empathy as though it were an irrelevance outside their province, a matter for psychology perhaps rather than philosophy.• Pensions policy accompanied long-term labour-market trends, which increasingly confirmed the economic irrelevance of elderly workers.• Meanwhile, three other candidates demonstrated for a national television audience their growing irrelevance to the struggle for the nomination.• What can I say in answer to this charge of irrelevance?• So, the political irrelevance of our subjects did not diminish our desperation.• The irrelevance of such an attitude is obvious.

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BNC: 18579 COCA: 21191

irrelevance

Not relevant or appropriate: irrelevant, inappropriate, unimportant...