triviality meaning

Noun: triviality  `trivee'alitee

1. The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
   - pettiness, slightness, puniness 
2. A detail that is considered insignificant
   - technicality, trifle 
3. Something of small importance
   - trivia, trifle, small beer

Derived forms: trivialities

See also: trivial

Type of: detail, item, object, physical object, point, unimportance

Encyclopedia: Triviality

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1. do n't waste time on domestic trivialities.
2. he was going to expose their triviality once and for all.
3. a common danger clears the mind of trivialities.
4. mr. casaubon seemed even unconscious that trivialities existed.
5. i rather wonder at your turning out such trivialities.