trivia
/ˈtrɪvɪə
/noun [mass noun]
Details, considerations, or pieces of information of little importance or value: we fill our days with meaningless trivia...
- Weird bits of trivia detailing how much stuff we've lost and how weird some of it is, seem to have become perennial news items.
- Having heard it repeated a few times, I now find it's one of those pieces of trivia that I simply know.
- It's a safe piece of trivia that no one expects but then it's pretty easy to remember.
Synonyms
(petty) details, minutiae, niceties, technicalities, trivialities, trifles, irrelevancies, non-essentials
Origin
Early 20th century: from modern Latin, plural of trivium 'place where three roads meet', influenced in sense by trivial.