as in irrelevance
the quality or state of not having anything to do with the matter at hand
the extraneousness of the commentators' remarks became more pronounced as the broadcast dragged on
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
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irrelevance
Noun
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Is the endangered Chicago Bear about to stumble out of the wilderness after three decades of irrelevance?—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
17 Oct. 2025 -
Once-influential leftist factions—the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine—have been ground down by decades of arrests, exile, funding collapse, and irrelevance.—
Mohammed R. Mhawish,
New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Extraneousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extraneousness. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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