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Words related to irrelevant

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  • calvary

    a representation of Christ's crucifixion, usually sculptured and in the open air

  • conversational implicature

    an inference that can be drawn from an utterance, as from one that is seemingly illogical or irrelevant, by examining the degree to which it conforms to the canons of normal conversation and the way it functions pragmatically within the situation, as when “The phone is ringing,” said in a situation where both speaker and listener can clearly hear the phone, can be taken as a suggestion to answer the phone.

  • displacement activity

    a behavior performed out of its usual context and apparently irrelevant to the prevailing situation, as eating when an unknown individual approaches, tending to occur when appropiate behaviors, as attacking or fleeing, are in conflict or obstructed.

  • elliptical

    (of speech or writing) using or involving ellipsis, especially so as to be difficult to understand.

  • folk etymology

    a modification of a linguistic form according either to a falsely assumed etymology, as Welsh rarebit from Welsh rabbit, or to a historically irrelevant analogy, as bridegroom from bridegome.

  • hokum

    out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
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