Definition of "irrelevancy" [irrelevancy]

• Irrelevance. (noun)

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• "Another irrelevancy is the fact that fascists were hated by communists."
• "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."
• "In recent years, the media has buzzed over the NAACP's "irrelevancy" - and even the NAACP itself raised the question over whether it was relevant as a political and social arm just two years ago."