n. The quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; lack of pertinence or connection.
n. A thing that is irrelevantāhaving no bearing on the subject of discussion.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; want of pertinence or connection.
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n. the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand
Word Usage
"If the use of the grotesque was a strength of Browning (as Chesterton contends against other critics), so in the case of Thackeray that which some critics have held to be a weakness -- I mean his 'irrelevancy' -- is for our critic a strength."