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insignificance

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in·sig·nif·i·cance  (nsg-nf-kns)
n.
The quality or state of being insignificant.
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Noun1.insignificance - the quality of having little or no significance
unimportance - the quality of not being important or worthy of note
meaninglessness - the quality of having no value or significance; "he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him"
inconsequence - having no important effects or influence
significance - the quality of being significant; "do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power"
insignificance
noun unimportance, irrelevance, triviality, pettiness, worthlessness, meaninglessness, inconsequence, immateriality, paltriness, negligibility << OPPOSITE importance

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To those who live in the narrow circle of human interests and human feelings, there ever exists, unheeded, almost unnoticed, before their very eyes, the most humbling proofs of their own comparative insignificance in the scale of creation, which, in the midst of their admitted mastery over the earth and all it contains, it would be well for them to consider, if they would obtain just views of what they are and what they were intended to be.
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
How we barely escaped the cruel fangs of lions and tigers the size of which would dwarf into pitiful insignificance the greatest felines of the outer world.
At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Further, the insignificance of Triptolemus and Eumolpus point to considerable antiquity, and the digamma is still active.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
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