Insignificance
[,ɪnsɪg'nɪfəkəns]
Definition
(n.) The condition or quality of being insignificant; want of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases.
(n.) Want of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art.
(n.) Want of claim to consideration or notice; want of influence or standing; meanness.
Checker: Wyatt
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Unimportance, paltriness, triviality, emptiness, nothingness.
Checker: Luther
Examples
- Gerty felt the poverty, the insignificance of her surroundings: she beheld her life as it must appear to Lily. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Your memory does me more honour than my insignificance deserves. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It was not so with me; and the question of rank and right dwindled to insignificance in my eyes, when I pictured the scene of suffering Athens. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The clergy were sacred beings in Miss Ainley's eyes; no matter what might be the insignificance of the individual, his station made him holy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Her days of insignificance and evil were over. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Let us hope, therefore, that her being there may teach her her own insignificance. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The inability thus to solace her outraged feelings gave her a paralyzing sense of insignificance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I don't know what he said, except that he recommended each to penetrate herself with a sense of her personal insignificance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- No one looked at her, no one seemed aware of her presence; she was probing the very depths of insignificance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He accepted the complete insignificance of this household, for him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then the caller, no matter how important or what his mission, is likely to realize his utter insignificance and be sent away without accomplishing his object. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Fifty years after Aristotle's death the Lyceum had already dwindled to insignificance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I thought those were large rocks, but they sank into insignificance compared with those which formed another section of the platform. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She had a sense of deeper empoverishment--of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions dwindled into insignificance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- To-day the place and region have gone back to the insignificance from which Edison's genius lifted them so startlingly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Lois