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The fate worse than being wrong: nobody bothers to argue with you anymore.
means A fact, remark, or argument that has no bearing on the matter actually at hand.
from Built from relevant (from Latin relevare, 'to lift up' or 'raise again,' via the notion of something bearing weight on a question) plus the negating ir- and the noun suffix -ancy. So irrelevancy is literally the state of failing to 'lift' anything in the argument — it doesn't bear on the point at all. The word settled into English alongside 'irrelevant' as that adjective's abstract-noun twin, used when you need to name the quality itself rather than just label a remark with it.
- opposite of
- being hated, which at least requires attention
- careers fear
- this more than failure or scandal
- social media
- invented to outrun it, mostly fails
- courtroom term
- means evidence that cannot even be considered