Triviality \Triv`i*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. Trivialities. [Cf. F.
trivialit['e]]
1. The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.
[1913 Webster]
2. That which is trivial; a trifle.
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The philosophy of our times does not expend itself
in furious discussions on mere scholastic
trivialities. --Lyon
Playfair.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
triviality
n 1: the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
[syn: pettiness, slightness]
2: a detail that is considered insignificant [syn: technicality,
trifle]
3: something of small importance [syn: trivia, trifle, small
beer]
WordNet (r) 2.0
196 Moby Thesaurus words for "triviality":
a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, absurdity,
aimlessness, asininity, bagatelle, baseness, battiness, bauble,
bean, bibelot, big deal, bit, bootlessness, brainlessness,
brass farthing, buffoonery, button, cent, clownishness,
crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, curio, cursoriness,
daffiness, daintiness, deficiency, delicacy, desipience,
diminutiveness, eccentricity, emptiness, epidermis, exiguity,
exiguousness, exteriority, failure, farce, farthing, fatuity,
fatuousness, feather, fecklessness, fewness, fig, fleabite,
flimsiness, folderol, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness,
fribble, frippery, frivolity, frivolousness, fruitlessness,
futility, gaud, gewgaw, giddiness, gimcrack, gloss, goofiness,
hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, hollowness, idiocy, idleness,
imbecility, imperfection, impotence, inadequacy, inanity,
incompetence, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsequentness,
inconsiderableness, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficacy,
ineptitude, insanity, insignificance, insufficiency, jest, joke,
kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, levity, lightness, littleness,
lunacy, madness, maladroitness, meagerness, meaninglessness,
meanness, mediocrity, mere scratch, mindlessness, minikin,
minuteness, minutiae, mockery, moderateness, molehill, niaiserie,
no depth, no water, nugacity, nuttiness, otiosity, paltriness,
peppercorn, pettiness, picayune, picayunishness, pin,
pinch of snuff, pinprick, pointlessness, profitlessness, puniness,
purposelessness, queerness, rap, rat race, red cent, rind,
row of pins, rush, sappiness, scantiness, scratch, screwiness,
senselessness, shabbiness, shallowness, shit, shoaliness,
silliness, skin, slenderness, slightness, small, small beer,
smallness, snap, sneeshing, sou, straw, stupidity, subnormality,
superficiality, superficies, surface, technicality, the absurd,
thoughtlessness, tininess, toy, trifle, triflingness, trinket,
triteness, trivialness, tuppence, two cents, twopence,
unimportance, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness,
unskillfulness, vacuity, valuelessness, vanity, vapidity, veneer,
vicious circle, vulgarity, wackiness, weirdness, whim-wham,
witlessness, worthlessness, zaniness, zanyism
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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