单词 | inconsiderableness |
释义 | inconsiderablenessn. The quality of being inconsiderable. 1. Unworthiness of being considered; small importance or consequence; slightness of value or amount; trifling amount; insignificance. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > little importance or triviality simpleness1440 toyousness1581 triflingnessa1586 triviality1598 pusillage1610 inconsiderableness1646 shrimpishness1651 unsignificancy1659 trivialnessa1687 no great things1776 cobwebbery1837 mereness1909 picayunity1948 the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a trifling amount > quality of being inconsiderableness1812 1646 W. Jenkyn Reformation's Remora 16 The smallnes and inconsiderablenes of the pretext. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 5 Sept. (1971) IV. 299 I did inform myself well in things relating to the East Indys, both of the country..and the inconsiderablenesse of the place of Bombaim if we had had it. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 24 The Inconsiderableness of that Edifice. 1812 G. Chalmers Hist. View Domest. Econ. Great Brit. & Ireland 66 The cargoes..could not, from their inconsiderableness, have filled a mighty void, for any length of years. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > lack of reflection > [noun] inconsiderableness1640 unthoughtfulness1661 inconsideracy1748 unreflectingness1816 irreflectiveness1842 irreflection1861 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xl. 522 A Depraved Understanding,..Depraved by Neglect and Inconsiderablenesse; not darkned by Ignorance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1640 |
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