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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot

Meaning of "insignificance" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INSIGNIFICANCE

insignificance  [ˌɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INSIGNIFICANCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Insignificance is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INSIGNIFICANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

insignificance

Insignificance

People may face feelings of insignificance due to a number of causes, including having low self-esteem, being depressed, living in a huge, impersonal city, comparing themselves to wealthy celebrity success stories, working in a huge bureaucracy, or being in awe of a natural wonder.

Definition of insignificance in the English dictionary

The first definition of insignificance in the dictionary is the quality or state of having little or no importance or of being trifling. Other definition of insignificance is the quality or state of being almost or relatively meaningless. Insignificance is also the quality or state of being small or inadequate.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INSIGNIFICANCE


appearance
əˈpɪərəns
assistance
əˈsɪstəns
audience
ˈɔːdɪəns
balance
ˈbæləns
compliance
kəmˈplaɪəns
conference
ˈkɒnfərəns
confidence
ˈkɒnfɪdəns
difference
ˈdɪfərəns
distance
ˈdɪstəns
evidence
ˈɛvɪdəns
experience
ɪkˈspɪərɪəns
imbalance
ɪmˈbæləns
importance
ɪmˈpɔːtəns
influence
ˈɪnflʊəns
insurance
ɪnˈʃʊərəns
Lawrence
ˈlɒrəns
license
ˈlaɪsəns
maintenance
ˈmeɪntɪnəns
significance
sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns
vacance
ˈveɪkəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INSIGNIFICANCE

insider trading
insides
insidious
insidiously
insidiousness
insight
insightful
insightfully
insigne
insignia
insignificancy
insignificant
insignificantly
insignificative
insincere
insincerely
insincerity
insinew
insinuate
insinuating

WORDS THAT END LIKE INSIGNIFICANCE

acceptance
accordance
advance
alliance
assurance
chance
clearance
dance
enhance
entrance
finance
France
guidance
in advance
instance
on the chance
range of significance
relevance
romance
stand a chance

Synonyms and antonyms of insignificance in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INSIGNIFICANCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «insignificance» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of insignificance

Translation of «insignificance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INSIGNIFICANCE

Find out the translation of insignificance to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of insignificance from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «insignificance» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不重要
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

insignificancia
570 millions of speakers

English

insignificance
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निरर्थकता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التفاهه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ничтожество
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

insignificância
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তুচ্ছতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

insignifiance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Insignificance
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bedeutungslosigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無意味
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하찮음
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ketimpangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không quan trọng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முக்கியமற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निरर्थकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anlamsızlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

scarsa importanza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieistotność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нікчема
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inconsistență
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ασημαντότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nietigheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

obetydlighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ubetydelighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of insignificance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INSIGNIFICANCE»

The term «insignificance» is regularly used and occupies the 86.426 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INSIGNIFICANCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «insignificance» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «insignificance» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about insignificance

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10 QUOTES WITH «INSIGNIFICANCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word insignificance.
1
Aesop
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
2
Saul Bellow
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
3
Joseph Brodsky
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
4
Nicolaus Copernicus
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
5
Paul Davies
For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.
6
T. S. Eliot
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
7
Laura Marling
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
8
Nathan Myhrvold
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
9
Jonathan Sacks
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
10
William Thomas
Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INSIGNIFICANCE»

Discover the use of insignificance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to insignificance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the ...
The book is a unique blend of an interpretation of the historical present and a poignant description of contemporary individual experience, anxiety, and hopes, in which Strenger makes use of his decades of clinical experience in existential ...
Carlo Strenger, 2011
2
The Pragmatics of Insignificance: Chekhov, Zoshchenko, Gogol
When is a detail significant and when extraneous? And how much irrelevant detail can a reader take in stride? This book addresses tellability by looking at texts that raise the question themselves, works by Chekhov, Zoshchenko, and Gogol.
Cathy Popkin, 1993
3
Studies in insignificance
These stories tantalize by bordering on the darker sides of human sexuality.
Richard Krause, 2003
4
Trance of Insignificance
Television news producer Jules Duvil must choose between the life she always wanted and the only man she ever truly loved.
Jennifer Rainville, 2011
5
Postscript on Insignificance: Dialogues with Cornelius ...
A collection of interviews in which Cornelius Castoriadis discusses his key works and ideas.
Cornelius Castoriadis, Gabriel Rockhill, 2011
6
Embrace Your Insignificance: Lessons Learned Teaching ...
Welcome to the world of teaching English in Japan. EMBRACE YOUR INSIGNIFICANCE is the blow-by-blow chronicles of Bob Gaulke, an anxious thirty-something American trying to fake his way through a culture that fascinates and exhausts him.
Bob Gaulke, 2008
7
The Kingdom of Insignificance: Miron Bialoszewski and the ...
In this first scholarly book in English on Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983), Joanna Niżyńska illuminates the elusive prose of one of the most compelling and challenging postwar Polish writers.
Joanna Nizynska, 2013
8
The Inessential Indexical: On the Philosophical ...
Cappelen and Dever oppose one of the most entrenched and dominant trends in contemporary philosophy: that perspective (and the perspective of the first person in particular) is philosophically deep and that a proper understanding of it is ...
Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever, 2013
9
Memoirs of Insignificance
An autobiography of a Pakistani librarian.
Inamul Haq (Air Cdre.), 1999
10
Urban regeneration, community power, and the insignificance ...
Adopting an ethnographic approach in the study of community participation and power and the significance of 'race' in three ethnically diverse neighbourhoods in London, this book highlights that there has been a 'pluralistic turn' in ...
Paul J. Maginn, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INSIGNIFICANCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term insignificance is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lounge Review: The Festival of Insignificance - Livemint
The Festival Of Insignificance is like the tacit epilogue to Milan Kundera's body of work. Various strains of this polyphony evoke passages from ... «Livemint, Jul 15»
2
Viewpoints - PRUETT: How the death of SPEED Channel saved …
The third member of the cable motor racing revolution is the upstart CBS Sports Network, and they've gone from complete insignificance to ... «Racer, Jul 15»
3
Avoid these five investment traps - Sydney Morning Herald
There are ways to improve returns, minimise fees and lower taxes, but they pale into insignificance compared to not starting as soon as ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
4
Of Political Tarts with Hearts and the Globalist Boot of Orthodoxy
... into insignificance regardless of gender such the moral degeneration befitting the consideration of Dante Alighieri when 'prostitution political' ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
5
Yukon's Kluane National Park a sight to behold by helicopter …
The landscape's stark, wild beauty is overwhelming, giving most visitors a sense of isolation and insignificance. Karman shakes me from my ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
6
DOL issues aggressive interpretation of independent contractor …
In doing so, it relegates to “insignificance” concepts and factors that for decades have helped define independence, such as whether a worker ... «Lexology, Jul 15»
7
Who Suffers More From This Pregnancy Lark - You Or Your … - Grazia
but still, my symptoms and those of many other women in similar conditions pale into insignificance compared to the woes currently suffered by ... «Grazia, Jul 15»
8
Hamilton artist Campbell Smith dies | Stuff.co.nz
"For all that the cinema was a genuine interest, it paled into insignificance next to his wider contributions to the Hamilton arts scene." Perhaps ... «Waikato Times, Jul 15»
9
AFRIFF Goes the Extra Mile, Sends 3 dozen Nollywood Practitioners …
... shot the two aforementioned movies in the Igbo language, a language that has almost been consigned to insignificance as far as Nollywood ... «360Nobs.com, Jul 15»
10
Booming Chinese outbound market fueled by tech-savvy millenials
However, this pales into insignificance when compared with the top five per cent of spenders, who spent over six times more than the average ... «Travel Weekly UK, Jul 15»

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