单词 | non-significance |
释义 | non-significancen. Lack of significance; insignificance.non-significance rather than insignificance tends to be used when there is a contrast with significance; cf. the comment at non- prefix 3a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [noun] insolidity1578 emptiness1579 insignificancy1651 no-meaning1672 insignificance1754 inexpression1796 inexpressiveness1815 vacuousness1816 unmeaningness1825 unmeaning1839 pointlessness1845 non-significance1846 meaninglessness1853 unsuggestiveness1858 unexpressiveness1885 nonsense1942 1846 Proc. Philol. Soc. (1848) 3 9 Respecting the significance or non-significance of those elements. 1874 Galaxy Sept. 399/2 A person..who did not know the significance or non-significance of the nursery jargon. 1902 Biometrika 1 305 The theory of statistics can be applied to test the significance or non-significance of differences in statistical constants. 1932 Science 2 Dec. 502/2 The non-significance of the larger proportion of modern genetic discoveries. 1997 J. Updike Toward End of Time 51 The moon's geography,..has proved, now that we have walked upon it and photographed its pores, obdurately meaningless, a study in enlarged non-significance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1846 |
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