insignificance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=sig=nif=i=cance

CIDE DICTIONARY

insignificance, n. 

•  The condition or quality of being insignificant; lack of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases.  [1913 Webster]
•  Lack of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art.  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

insignificance

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

ROGET THESAURUS

insignificance

Unimportance

N unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality, triviality, levity, frivolity, paltriness, poverty, smallness, vanity, matter of indifference, no object, nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of, small matter, no great matter, trifling matter, mere joke, mere nothing, hardly anything, scarcely anything, nonentity, small beer, cipher, no great shakes, peu de chose, child's play, kinderspiel, toy, plaything, popgun, paper pellet, gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble, trinket, bagatelle, Rickshaw, knickknack, whim-wham, trifle, trifles light as air, yankee notions, trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras, frippery, leather or prunello, chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb, weed, refuse, scum, joke, jest, snap of the fingers, fudge, fiddlestick, fiddlestick end, pack of nonsense, mere farce, straw, pin, fig, button, rush, bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing, brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son, cent, mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent, minutiae, details, minor details, small fry, dust in the balance, feather in the scale, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill, nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus, flash in the pan, much ado about nothing, unimportant, of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance, immaterial, unessential, nonessential, indifferent, subordinate, mediocre, passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace, uneventful, mere, common, ordinary, inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable, trifling, trivial, slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle, puerile, airy, shallow, weak, powerless, frivolous, petty, niggling, piddling, peddling, fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical, finical, finikin, fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water, poor, paltry, pitiful, contemptible, sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, niggardly, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery, one- horse, not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw, beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration, de lana caprina, vain, slightly, rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably, for aught one cares, Int, no matter!, pish!, tush!, tut!, pshaw!, pugh!, pooh, pooh-pooh!, fudge!, bosh!, humbug!, fiddlestick, fiddlestick end!, fiddlededee!, never mind!, n'importe!, what signifies it, what boots it, what of it, what of that, what matter, what's the odds, a fig for', stuff!, nonsense!, stuff and nonsense, magno conatu magnas nugas, le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle, it matters not, it does not signify, it is of no consequence, it is of no importance, elephantus non capit murem, tempete dans un verre d'eau.