'Insignificance' definitions:
Definition of 'insignificance'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of having little or no significance [ant: significance]
Definition of 'Insignificance'
From: GCIDE
- Insignificance \In`sig*nif"i*cance\, n.
- 1. The condition or quality of being insignificant; lack of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Lack of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Lack of claim to consideration or notice; lack of influence or standing; meanness. [1913 Webster]
- Reduce him, from being the first person in the nation, to a state of insignificance. --Beattie. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'insignificance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aimlessness,
- daintiness,
- dead letter,
- delicacy,
- diminutiveness,
- emptiness,
- empty sound,
- exiguity,
- exiguousness,
- fewness,
- futility,
- immateriality,
- inanity,
- inconsequence,
- inconsequentiality,
- inconsiderableness,
- indifference,
- ineffectuality,
- inferiority,
- insufficiency,
- irrelevance,
- littleness,
- low priority,
- marginality,
- meagerness,
- meaninglessness,
- meanness,
- mere noise,
- minuteness,
- moderateness,
- negligibility,
- noise,
- nonsensicality,
- nullity,
- pettiness,
- phatic communion,
- picayune,
- picayunishness,
- pokiness,
- puniness,
- purposelessness,
- scantiness,
- secondariness,
- senselessness,
- slightness,
- smallness,
- tininess,
- triviality,
- unimportance,
- unimpressiveness,
- unmeaningness,
- unnoteworthiness,
- unsignificancy