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insignificance
[ in-sig-nif-i-kuhns ]
Other Words From
- self-insig·nifi·cance noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of insignificance1
Example Sentences
The consequences for resistance are so severe exactly because it is so threatening, yet every day we are made to believe that these are acts of relative insignificance.
If a Queen did cheat, her crimes fade into insignificance compared to the extensive philandering engaged in by medieval monarchs.
No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us.
Somehow those emails that had seemed so important last week paled to insignificance today.
Not to be one of them has become a sign of social insignificance.
But back to the pastor: His theological insignificance notwithstanding, his threat is a most dangerous development.
The loftiest pagan philosophy dwindled into insignificance before the sublimity of Christian hope.
Her plain purple coat and wide Leghorn hat, with black ribbons, had the effect not of elegance, but of insignificance.
Indeed, the old Latin communities, with the exception of Tibur and Prneste, had sunk into insignificance.
Never in all his life had Tom felt his own insignificance as he did now.
They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance.
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