All irrelevancy synonyms

noun irrelevancy

• footnote — an explanatory or documenting note or comment at the bottom of a page, referring to a specific part of the text on the page.
• divagation — to wander; stray.
• difference — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.
• aside — If you move something aside, you move it to one side of you.
• note — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
• deviation — Deviation means doing something that is different from what people consider to be normal or acceptable.
• divergence — the act, fact, or amount of diverging: a divergence in opinion.
• detour — If you make a detour on a journey, you go by a route which is not the shortest way, because you want to avoid something such as a traffic jam, or because there is something you want to do on the way.
• variation — the act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree: Prices are subject to variation.
• divergency — divergence; deviation.
• diversion — the act of diverting or turning aside, as from a course or purpose: a diversion of industry into the war effort.
• tangent — in immediate physical contact; touching.
• departure — Departure or a departure is the act of going away from somewhere.
• incident — an individual occurrence or event.
• parenthesis — either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
• wandering — moving from place to place without a fixed plan; roaming; rambling: wandering tourists.
• deflection — The deflection of something means making it change direction.
• drifting — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
• apostrophe — An apostrophe is the mark ' when it is written to indicate that one or more letters have been left out of a word, as in 'isn't' and 'we'll'. It is also added to nouns to form possessives, as in 'Mike's car'.
• digression — the act of digressing.
• episode — An event or a group of events occurring as part of a larger sequence; an incident or period considered in isolation.
• excursion — A short journey or trip, esp. one engaged in as a leisure activity.
• excursus — A detailed discussion of a particular point in a book, usually in an appendix.
• obiter dictum — an incidental or passing remark, opinion, etc.
• rambling — aimlessly wandering.
• discursion — an instance of discursive writing, speech, etc.; a wandering or logically unconnected statement.