Meaning of INSIGNIFICANCE
| Pronunciation: | | `insig'nifukuns
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| | Definition: | | [n] the quality of having little or no significance |
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| | Antonyms: | | significance | | |
| | See Also: | | inconsequence, meaninglessness, unimportance | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`sig*nif"i*cance\, n.
1. The condition or quality of being insignificant; want of
significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of
words or phrases.
2. Want of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness;
inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art.
3. Want of claim to consideration or notice; want of
influence or standing; meanness.
Reduce him, from being the first person in the
nation, to a state of insignificance. --Beattie.
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| | Related Terms: | | aimlessness, daintiness, dead letter, delicacy, diminutiveness, emptiness, empty sound, exiguity, exiguousness, fewness, futility, immateriality, inanity, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, indifference, ineffectuality, inferiority, insufficiency, irrelevance, littleness, low priority, marginality, meagerness, meaninglessness, meanness, mere noise, minuteness, moderateness, negligibility, noise, nonsensicality, nullity, pettiness, phatic communion, picayune, picayunishness, pokiness, puniness, purposelessness, scantiness, secondariness, senselessness, slightness, smallness, tininess, triviality, unimportance, unimpressiveness, unmeaningness, unnoteworthiness, unsignificancy |
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