trivialityn.
/trɪvɪˈalɪti/ 1. The quality of being trivial; commonplace or trifling character.
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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
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Triuialità, homelines, triuiality.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 106 My severest critics have not pretended to have found in my compositions triviality.
1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales III. lxxxix. 228 The loss of the house was a matter of triviality compared with that of the library.
1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. vi. 250 The genuine excellence which underlay the superficial triviality of Crabbe's verses.
2. With a, or (commonly) in plural: Something trivial; a trivial matter, affair, characteristic, remark, etc.; a trifle.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial
gnatc1000
ball play?c1225
smalla1250
triflec1290
fly1297
child's gamec1380
motec1390
mitec1400
child's playc1405
trufferyc1429
toyc1450
curiosity1474
fly-winga1500
neither mass nor matins1528
boys' play1538
nugament1543
knack?1544
fable1552
nincety-fincety1566
mouse1584
molehill1590
coot1594
scoff1594
nidgery1611
pin matter1611
triviality1611
minuity1612
feathera1616
fillip1621
rattle1622
fiddlesticka1625
apex1625
rush candle1628
punctilio1631
rushlight1635
notchet1637
peppercorn1638
petty John1640
emptiness1646
fool-fangle1647
nonny-no1652
crepundian1655
fly-biting1659
pushpin1660
whinny-whanny1673
whiffle1680
straw1692
two and a plack1692
fiddle1695
trivial1715
barley-strawa1721
nothingism1742
curse1763
nihility1765
minutia1782
bee's knee1797
minutiae1797
niff-naff1808
playwork1824
floccinaucity1829
trivialism1830
chicken feed1834
nonsensical1842
meemaw1862
infinitesimality1867
pinfall1868
fidfad1875
flummadiddle1882
quantité négligeable1885
quotidian1902
pipsqueak1905
hickey1909
piddle1910
cream puff1920
squat1934
administrivia1937
chickenshit1938
cream puff1938
diddly-squat1963
non-issue1965
Tinkertoy1972
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Trivialitez, Triuialities; triuiall, sleight, common, homelie, ordinarie matters.
c1664 I. Barrow Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 37 I..find little but repetitions and trivialities.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. xi. 26/2 A..Letter, full of compliments,..dining repartees, and other ephemeral trivialities.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. vi. 228 The Practical Labour of England is not a chimerical Triviality.
1877 W. Black Green Pastures v Archery meetings and croquet parties and such trivialities.
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