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Definition of Insignificance
1. Noun. The quality of having little or no significance.
Specialized synonyms: Meaninglessness, Inconsequence
Derivative terms: Insignificant, Insignificant, Insignificant
Antonyms: Significance
Definition of Insignificance
1. n. The condition or quality of being insignificant; want of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases.
Definition of Insignificance
1. Noun. the state of being insignificant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insignificance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insignificance
Literary usage of Insignificance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1902)
"OUR insignificance. THERE are upwards of two thousand million people in the ...
To set out to learn our individual insignificance is an excellent lesson. ..."
2. History of Federal Government in Greece and Italy by Edward Augustus Freeman, John Bagnell Bury (1893)
"Restoration of the League with a modified Headship in Thebes. BC 245. insignificance
of Boeotia in later Greece. BC 201- 186 or 222-197. ..."
3. Mornings in the College Chapel: Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal by Francis Greenwood Peabody (1898)
"... not just drift along with the current and be lost in the first rapids of the
stream ? Now Christ's first appeal to this sense of insignificance is this, ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"insignificance, while her fame lifts itself upon a broader basis, and takes ampler
scope and proportions. It is the woman who rises before us, ..."
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