Lack of pertinence; irrelevance.
An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent.
"Enough, sir! " he thundered with barely restrained fury. "Enough, I say! Once and for all I must endeavour to rid myself of you and your impertinence.
The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness.
Borrowed from Middle French impertinence, from impertinent (“impertinent”); by surface analysis, im- + pertinent.
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