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triviality
noun
1 triviality
The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.
synonyms: pettiness, puniness, slightness.
Roget 645:
inutility;
uselessness
etc.
adj.;
inefficacy†,
futility;
ineptitude,
inaptitude;
unsubservience†;
inadequacy
etc.
(insufficiency)
640;
inefficiency,
etc.
(incompetence)
158;
unskillfulness
etc.
699;
disservice;
unfruitfulness
etc.
(unproductiveness)..
169;
labor in vain,
labor lost,
labor of Sisyphus;
lost trouble,
lost labor;
work of Penelope;
sleeveless errand,
wild goose chase,
mere farce.
tautology
etc.
(repetition)
104;
supererogation
etc.
(redundancy)
641.
vanitas vanitatum [Lat.],
vanity,
inanity,
worthlessness,
nugacity†;
triviality
etc.
(unimportance)
643.
caput mortuum [Lat.],
waste paper,
dead letter;
blunt tool.
litter,
rubbish,
junk,
lumber,
odds and ends,
cast-off clothes;
button top;
shoddy;
rags,
orts†,
trash,
refuse,
sweepings,
scourings,
offscourings†,
waste,
rubble,
debris,
detritus;
stubble,
leavings;
broken meat;
dregs
etc.
(dirt)
653;
weeds,
tares;
rubbish heap,
dust hole;
rudera†,
deads†.
fruges consumere natus [Lat.]
[Horace].
etc.
(drone)
683
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Polish: błahość, bzdurność, durność
2 triviality
A detail that is considered insignificant.
synonym: trifle.
3 triviality
Something of small importance.
synonyms: small beer, trifle, trivia.
Roget 643:
unimportance,
insignificance,
nothingness,
immateriality.
triviality,
levity,
frivolity;
paltriness
etc.
adj.;
poverty;
smallness
etc.
32;
vanity
etc.
(uselessness)
645;
matter of indifference
etc.
866;
no object.
nothing,
nothing to signify,
nothing worth speaking of,
nothing particular,
nothing to boast of,
nothing to speak of;
small matter,
no great matter,
trifling matter
etc.
adj.;
mere joke,
mere nothing;
hardly anything;
scarcely anything;
nonentity,
small beer,
cipher;
no great shakes,
peu de chose [Fr.];
child's play,
kinderspiel.
toy,
plaything,
popgun,
paper pellet,
gimcrack,
gewgaw,
bauble,
trinket,
bagatelle,
Rickshaw,
knickknack,
whim-wham,
trifle,
trifles light as air;"
yankee notions [U.S.].
trumpery,
trash,
rubbish,
stuff,
fatras†,
frippery;
leather or prunello;"
chaff,
drug,
froth bubble smoke,
cobweb;
weed;
refuse
etc.
(inutility)
645;
scum
etc.
(dirt)
653.
joke,
jest,
snap of the fingers;
fudge
etc.
(unmeaning)
517;
fiddlestick†,
fiddlestick end†;
pack of nonsense,
mere farce.
straw,
pin,
fig,
button,
rush;
bulrush,
feather,
halfpenny,
farthing,
brass farthing,
doit†,
peppercorn,
jot,
rap,
pinch of snuff,
old son;
cent,
mill,
picayune,
pistareen†,
red cent [U.S.].
minutiae,
details,
minor details,
small fry;
dust in the balance,
feather in the scale,
drop in the ocean,
flea-bite,
molehill.
nine days' wonder,
ridiculus mus [Lat.];
flash in the pan
etc.
(impotence)
158;
much ado about nothing
etc.
(overestimation)
482.
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Dutch: klein bier, trivia, kleintje
Polish: błahostka, bzdet, duperele, duperela, drobiazg, drobnostka
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