irrelevance
(ɪˈrɛlɪvəns)
[f. irrelevant: see -ance.]
The fact or quality of being irrelevant, want of pertinence; with an and pl. an irrelevant remark, circumstance, etc.
| 1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & B. III. xii. 357 All her wit is healthy; all its images entire and applicable throughout—not palsy-stricken with irrelevance. 1872 W. Minto Eng. Prose Lit. i. i. 64 A second irrelevance foisted in upon the back of the first. 1873 ‘F. Trafford’ (Mrs. Riddell) Earl's Prom. II. 123, ‘I am going away’, began Grace with apparent irrelevance. |