irrelevance

[ih-rel-uh-vuh ns]

the quality or condition of being irrelevant.

an irrelevant thing, act, etc.

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He worried that "we were on the verge of irrelevance a lot in our lives."
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Had she not gone into the coalition and gotten something near the center of power, she would have quickly faded into irrelevance.
Good For Livni And Good For Peace|Brent E. Sasley|February 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
One could just ignore the hyperbole and watch it follow similar groups down the path to irrelevance.
‘Pulpit Freedom Sunday’ Pastors Don’t Care About Religious Freedom|David Sessions|October 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
So it would be ignored, discarded, thrown into the bin of irrelevance.
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Obama would do right to address any fears of irrelevance, which he—inadvertently—helped stoke by postponing his trip twice.
Obama's Awkward Indonesia Trip|Sahil Mahtani, Kenneth Weisbrode|November 7, 2010|DAILY BEAST
But the deepest annoyance arising from the miracles would be the irrelevance of the issue raised by them.
Preface to Androcles and the Lion|George Bernard Shaw
That is for us so obvious a suggestion that one wonders at the tacit assumption of its irrelevance.
English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century|Leslie Stephen
The reader may be safely left to perceive the irrelevance and the emptiness of such "may-be-saids."
The Color Line|William Benjamin Smith
Mr. Allen, it appeared, had "acted foolish" and been reproved by the Coroner, first for irrelevance and then for impertinence.
The Devil's Garden|W. B. Maxwell
He supposed the old man—intuitively—had decided a laugh was needed to clear the air of the quarrel and irrelevance.
The Syndic|C.M. Kornbluth