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/ˌɪnsɪgnjˈɪfɪkəns/ Listen

noun

Insignificance n.

The condition or quality of being insignificant; lack of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases.

Lack of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art.

Lack of claim to consideration or notice; lack of influence or standing; meanness. "Reduce him, from being the first person in the nation, to a state of insignificance."

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Etymology of 'Insignificance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Insignificance" Quotes from Famous Books

... English literature which can boast first-rate historical importance. There are not a few later productions in the kind which may be reasonably held to surpass it in poetic merit, but all alike sink into insignificance by the side of Spenser's eclogues when the influence they exercised on the history of English verse is taken into account. The present is not of course the place to discuss this wider influence of Spenser's work: it is with its relation to pastoral ...

— Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama - A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration - Stage in England • Walter W. Greg

... in the house? A nameless horror struggled to Joyce's face, her eyes were dilating with it; she seized and threw on a large flannel gown which lay on a chair by the bed, and forgetful of her master who stood there, out she sprang to the floor. All minor considerations faded to insignificance beside the terrible dread which had taken possession of her. Clasping the flannel gown tight around her with one hand, she laid the other on the arm ...

— East Lynne • Mrs. Henry Wood

... realised his own insignificance so poignantly as when he strolled through the City streets at their busiest hour, and was unrecognised even by the bareheaded clerks who dashed madly in all directions, carrying ...

— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace

... importance. A look, a tone of the voice, a pressure of the hand, are events to dream about and feast upon. In the presence of the beloved object all things else are either unheeded or dwindle into comparative insignificance. ...

— The Lost Hunter - A Tale of Early Times • John Turvill Adams

... convinced that if Cook was not an accomplice in the train robbery, he was involved in something criminal, and Sam regretted that he had not been more thorough in his investigations. Now that Chip was in the hands of his enemies, all others sank into insignificance; so with keen eyes and sharp ears, Sam ...

— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton

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