Irrelevancy vs Relevancy - What's the difference?
irrelevancy | relevancy | Antonyms |
(label) The quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; lack of pertinence or connection.
(label) A thing that is irrelevant—having no bearing on the subject of discussion.
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(legal, Scotland) Sufficieny (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal pertinence.
(uncountable) The degree to which a thing is relevant; relevance, applicability.
*1842 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Myster of Marie Rogêt’:
*:It is the malpractice of the courts to confine evidence and discussion to the bounds of apparent relevancy .
(countable) A relevant thing.
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