cobwebberyn.
/ˈkɒbˌwɛbəri/ The spinning of cobwebs; a texture of cobwebs. figurative.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > little importance or triviality
simpleness1440
toyousness1581
triflingnessa1586
triviality1598
pusillage1610
inconsiderableness1646
shrimpishness1651
unsignificancy1659
trivialnessa1687
no great things1776
cobwebbery1837
mereness1909
picayunity1948
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. ii. 12 Logical cobwebbery shrinks itself together.
1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 287 Metaphysical controversies and cobwebberies.
1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ II. xxxvii. 89 Their cobwebbery of endless sophistries and verbal trifling.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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