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unimportance
The property of lack of importance.
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  1. The property of lack of importance.
immateriality
Something immaterial.
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  1. Something immaterial.
  2. The state of being immaterial
paltriness
The characteristic of being paltry.
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  1. The characteristic of being paltry.
paltriness
The characteristic of being paltry.
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  1. The characteristic of being paltry.
pettiness
The quality of being petty.
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  1. The quality of being petty.
  2. A petty behaviour, attitude, etc.
smallness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being small.
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  1. (Uncountable) The state or quality of being small.
  2. (Countable) The result or product of being small.
trivialness
Quality or state of being trivial.
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  1. Quality or state of being trivial.
  2. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
frippery
Cheap, gaudy clothes; tawdry finery
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  1. Cheap, gaudy clothes; tawdry finery
  2. Showy display in dress, manners, speech, etc.; affectation of elegance
  3. Something trivial or nonessential.
frivolity
Frivolous act
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  1. Frivolous act
  2. The quality or condition of being frivolous.
  3. A frivolous act or thing.
froth
High prices unwarranted by economic fundamentals:
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  1. High prices unwarranted by economic fundamentals:
  2. Light, trifling, or worthless talk, ideas, etc.
  3. Something unsubstantial or trivial:
nonsense
Matter of little or no importance or usefulness:
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  1. Matter of little or no importance or usefulness:
  2. Words or signs having no intelligible meaning:
  3. Extravagant foolishness or frivolity:
small change
Coins, esp. those of low denomination
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  1. Coins, esp. those of low denomination
  2. (Idiomatic) A minor or insignificant amount of money.
  3. Something of little value or significance.
small potatoes
A person or thing regarded as unimportant.
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  1. A person or thing regarded as unimportant.
  2. (Informal) A petty or insignificant person (or people) or thing (or things)
  3. (Idiomatic) One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
trifle
An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
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  1. An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
  2. A kind of pewter of medium hardness
  3. Something of little value or importance; trivial thing, idea, etc.; paltry matter
trivia
Insignificant or inessential matters; trifles.
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  1. Insignificant or inessential matters; trifles.
  2. Little-known, insignificant facts
  3. Miscellaneous facts, especially when the subject of questions in games and quizzes.
Find another word for triviality. In this page you can discover 24 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for triviality, like: unimportance, immateriality, paltriness, insignificance, inconsiderableness, negligibility, negligibleness, paltriness, pettiness, smallness and trivialness.

Sentence Examples

  • Drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality--these are the enchanted circle I cannot escape from.

  • In these pieces, as in almost every production of his, in lieu of melody Liszt offers fragments of melody - touching and beautiful, it may be, or passionate, or tinged with triviality; in lieu of a rational distribution of centres of harmony in accordance with some definite plan, he presents clever combinations of chords and ingenious modulations from point to point; in lieu of musical logic and consistency of design, he is content with rhapsodical improvisation.

  • The triviality of these rites is ill concealed by the legends of the sa'y of Hagar and of the tawaf being first performed by Adam in imitation of the circuit of the angels about the throne of God; the meaning of their ceremonies seems to have been almost a blank to the Arabs before Islam, whose religion had become a mere formal tradition.

  • That this accuracy may sometimes degenerate into triviality, and that such absorption in trifles may occasionally hide the broad horizon, is conceivable.

  • After various experiments as schoolmaster, private tutor and actor, he turned to journalism, and afterwards more than avenged himself for the triviality and narrowness of his new surroundings in his famous Roda rummet (" The Red Room," 1879), described in the sub-title as sketches of literary and artistic life.

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