triviality
/ˌtrɪvɪˈalɪti
/noun (plural trivialities) [mass noun]
1Lack of seriousness or importance; insignificance: the mediocrity and triviality of current popular culture the relentlessness of his triviality is grating...
- No, no, no; you'd never find me wasting my time on such fruitless triviality.
- We can laugh at, or bemoan, the triviality of the media.
- The matter of the United Kingdom being engaged in a war which few of us condone far transcends the triviality of local affairs.
Synonyms
unimportance, insignificance, frivolousness, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, pettiness, slightness, paltriness, negligibility;
meaninglessness, pointlessness, worthlessness, flimsiness, insubstantiality
minor detail, petty detail, mere detail, matter/thing of no importance, matter/thing of no consequence, trifle, non-essential, inessential, nothing;
technicality, incidental;
(trivialities) trivia, minutiae
informal deets
1.1 [count noun] An insignificant detail; a trifle: an over-concentration on trivialities...
- I have often been accused of thinking too much, of over-analyzing trivialities.
- I do not wish to waste the House's time on such trivialities.
- Wipe out pettiness, irritations, illusions, trivialities.
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