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The one fate ambition fears more than failure — failure at least got noticed.
means The state of not mattering to the matter at hand — a fact, remark, or person that has no bearing on the question actually being asked.
from Built from Latin irrelevans — the negative prefix in- (not) fused onto relevans, 'relevant,' itself from relevare, 'to lift up or raise.' So something relevant literally 'bears upon' or 'rises to meet' the issue; something irrelevant just doesn't lift a finger. The word relevant only entered English in the 1500s-1600s via legal and logical usage, and irrelevance followed as its natural shadow — the term we needed once we had a word for mattering, to describe everything that didn't.
- etymology
- from relevare, to lift up, so irrelevance literally cannot be lifted
- social media twist
- now a feed problem before it is a personal one
- opposite of
- not wrongness, just not being asked
- cruel part
- you rarely know the exact moment it happens