Triviality
noun
The quality of being insignificant or unimportant.
He dismissed my question as a mere triviality.
Often appears as...
- a mere triviality
- dismiss as a triviality
noun
A thing that is of little value or importance.
Everyday life is full of trivialities that can distract us from the bigger picture.
Often appears as...
- get lost in trivialities
- overlook the trivialities
noun
The quality of being insignificant or unimportant.
He dismissed my question as a mere triviality.
Often appears as...
- a mere triviality
- dismiss as a triviality
noun
A thing that is of little value or importance.
Everyday life is full of trivialities that can distract us from the bigger picture.
Often appears as...
- get lost in trivialities
- overlook the trivialities
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Not Important
Use 'triviality' to express that something is so small or unimportant it's almost not worth mentioning.
In the face of the climate crisis, these arguments are trivialities.
Pro Tip 2/3Dismissive Tone
When calling something a 'triviality', it can sound dismissive, as if the matter is too small to care about.
He waved his hand, brushing off the complaints as trivialities.
Pro Tip 3/3Undermining Issues
Labeling a concern as a 'triviality' might offend someone if they consider it important.
Be careful not to call their concerns trivialities; they may take it to heart.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Important
Use 'triviality' to express that something is so small or unimportant it's almost not worth mentioning.
In the face of the climate crisis, these arguments are trivialities.
Pro Tip 2/3Dismissive Tone
When calling something a 'triviality', it can sound dismissive, as if the matter is too small to care about.
He waved his hand, brushing off the complaints as trivialities.
Pro Tip 3/3Undermining Issues
Labeling a concern as a 'triviality' might offend someone if they consider it important.
Be careful not to call their concerns trivialities; they may take it to heart.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Important
Use 'triviality' to express that something is so small or unimportant it's almost not worth mentioning.
In the face of the climate crisis, these arguments are trivialities.
Pro Tip 2/3Dismissive Tone
When calling something a 'triviality', it can sound dismissive, as if the matter is too small to care about.
He waved his hand, brushing off the complaints as trivialities.
Pro Tip 3/3Undermining Issues
Labeling a concern as a 'triviality' might offend someone if they consider it important.
Be careful not to call their concerns trivialities; they may take it to heart.
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Mind Blown - Hangout to...
tranquillize ourselves with trivialities so the day to day things that we have to do in our lives sometimes keep us from sitting back and being like how does consciousness works how to add a self-awareness work you know how does my how does this you know piece of meat inside my skull - a sense of self lead to a voice in my
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The perks of being a...
is the triviality of our own self-importance and self-consciousness. To truly understand the extent to which your self-consciousness prohibits you from engaging in opportunities should lead everyone to take risks they otherwise wouldn't.
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How to fool a GPS - Todd...
more than a few tens of dollars I couldn't find my shoes one recent morning and as usual I had to ask my wife if she had seen them but I shouldn't have to bother my wife with that kind of triviality I should be able
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Mind Blown - Hangout to...
tranquillize ourselves with trivialities so the day to day things that we have to do in our lives sometimes keep us from sitting back and being like how does consciousness works how to add a self-awareness work you know how does my how does this you know piece of meat inside my skull - a sense of self lead to a voice in my
Video examples
The perks of being a...
is the triviality of our own self-importance and self-consciousness. To truly understand the extent to which your self-consciousness prohibits you from engaging in opportunities should lead everyone to take risks they otherwise wouldn't.
Video examples
How to fool a GPS - Todd...
more than a few tens of dollars I couldn't find my shoes one recent morning and as usual I had to ask my wife if she had seen them but I shouldn't have to bother my wife with that kind of triviality I should be able
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Janet Malcolm
American Writer
The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography.
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Annie Dillard
American Author
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
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Michael Hastings
American Politician
Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold.
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Charles Bukowski
American Author
We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
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Alan K. Simpson
American Politician
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
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Quentin Crisp
English Writer
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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Andy Mineo
American Musician
We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I'm about kind of starts to break that mold and adds more meaning and dialogue to hip hop.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
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W. H. Auden
English Poet
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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Max Beerbohm
English Actor
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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Janet Malcolm
American Writer
The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography.
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Annie Dillard
American Author
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
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Michael Hastings
American Politician
Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold.
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Charles Bukowski
American Author
We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
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Alan K. Simpson
American Politician
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
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Quentin Crisp
English Writer
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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Andy Mineo
American Musician
We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I'm about kind of starts to break that mold and adds more meaning and dialogue to hip hop.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
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W. H. Auden
English Poet
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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Max Beerbohm
English Actor
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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