insignificance

[ in-sig-nif-i-kuhns ]

noun

1. the quality or condition of being insignificant; lack of importance or consequence.

Other Words From

• self-insig·nifi·cance noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of insignificance¹

First recorded in 1690–1700; insignific(ancy) + -ance

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.

From Outside Online

If a Queen did cheat, her crimes fade into insignificance compared to the extensive philandering engaged in by medieval monarchs.

From The Daily Beast

No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us.

From The Daily Beast

Somehow those emails that had seemed so important last week paled to insignificance today.

From The Daily Beast

Not to be one of them has become a sign of social insignificance.

From The Daily Beast

But back to the pastor: His theological insignificance notwithstanding, his threat is a most dangerous development.

From The Daily Beast

The loftiest pagan philosophy dwindled into insignificance before the sublimity of Christian hope.

From Project Gutenberg

Her plain purple coat and wide Leghorn hat, with black ribbons, had the effect not of elegance, but of insignificance.

From Project Gutenberg

Indeed, the old Latin communities, with the exception of Tibur and Prneste, had sunk into insignificance.

From Project Gutenberg

Never in all his life had Tom felt his own insignificance as he did now.

From Project Gutenberg

They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance.

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