irrelevance
I understand what you are saying but I don't understand the relevance to this discussion.
The relevance of this novel to the current situation is striking.
And what is the relevance of his claims to this matter?
This issue has no relevance to the matter in hand.
His teachings are of great relevance to modern life.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Suitable and acceptable
able
acceptability
acceptable
acceptably
accepted
convenience
conveniently
correctly
correctness
decent
decently
felicity
just what the doctor orderedidiom
legitimate
practical
properly
quality
re-eligibility
re-eligible
relevant

Examples of relevance

relevance
It presents arguments for the relevance of the child's own production for the building of linguistic representations.
Issues of transition and the relevance of the past are considered.
In particular, those involved in research and development will see the newly implemented systems as of special relevance to automation.
The results could be of relevance for the next generation of laser-plasma systems.
The results presented here may have relevance to a number of physical systems.
Is the symbolic value of the technology of any moral relevance?
For each of them, the theoretical analysis of its relevance is compared to scores obtained through evaluation.
An original paper should not include an extensive review of the literature, but only sufficient references to indicate the purpose and relevance of the investigation.
Most predictions generated focus on experimental tests of unclear relevance to real life.
The relevance of specific language impairment in understanding the role of transfer in second language acquisition.
This is due to the fact that other properties out of surface realization are useful to determine the relevance of an example.
The first two problem areas mentioned above concern issues typical for visual processing, and have, therefore, little relevance for this commentary.
There is considerable debate in the academic literature over the relevance or otherwise of the size-of-bet in gauging respondents' solutions to these types or risks.
Recent efforts have been directed at the relevance of the tensor to the dynamic symmetry of a hand-object system.
Below, the policy relevance of all four contingencies will be demonstrated.
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Collocations withrelevance

relevance

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biological relevance
The biological relevance of his findings could not be fully appreciated until the modern era of molecular population genetics.
clinical relevance
This stable symptomatology included the stable absence of disorder shown by most subjects in our study, which is of lesser epidemiological or clinicalrelevance.
considerable relevance
However, it is of considerable relevance in the prediction of the behaviour of aircraft jet exhausts and their loading effects on ground structures.
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