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Insignificance vs Irrelevance - What's the difference?

insignificance | irrelevance |

As nouns the difference between insignificance and irrelevance

is that insignificance is the state of being insignificant while irrelevance is lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance.

insignificance

English

Noun

(head)
  • the state of being insignificant

    • Antonyms

    * significance

    irrelevance

    English

    Noun

  • Lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}

    Antonyms

    * relevance

    Related terms

    * irrelevant