Word Meanings - INSIGNIFICANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The condition or quality of being insignificant; want of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases. 2. Want of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art. 3. Want

Additional info about word: INSIGNIFICANCE

1. The condition or quality of being insignificant; want of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases. 2. Want of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art. 3. Want of claim to consideration or notice; want of influence or standing; meanness. Reduce him, from being the first person in the nation, to a state of insignificance. Beattie.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSIGNIFICANCE)

• Indifference
• Triviality
• unimportance
• insignificance
• coolness
• carelessness
• apathy
• insensibility
• composure

Related words: (words related to INSIGNIFICANCE)

• APATHY
  Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to
• COMPOSURE
  1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
• INSENSIBILITY
  1. The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates. 2. Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity. Syn.
• COOLNESS
  1. The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness. 2. Calm impudence; self-possession.
• TRIVIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness. 2. That which is trivial; a trifle. The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities. Lyon Playfair.
• INSIGNIFICANCE
  1. The condition or quality of being insignificant; want of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases. 2. Want of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art. 3. Want
• INDIFFERENCE
  1. The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance. 2. Passableness; mediocrity. 3. Impartiality; freedom from prejudice,
• CARELESSNESS
  The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention.
• UNIMPORTANCE
  Want of importance; triviality. Johnson.
• DISCOMPOSURE
  1. The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation. No discomposure stirred her features. Akenside. 2. Discordance; disagreement of parts. Boyle.
• INAPATHY
  Sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy.