单词 | insignificance |
释义 | insignificancen. The fact or quality of being insignificant. 1. Want of signification or meaning. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [noun] insolidity1578 emptiness1579 insignificancy1651 no-meaning1672 insignificance1754 inexpression1796 inexpressiveness1815 vacuousness1816 unmeaningness1825 unmeaning1839 pointlessness1845 non-significance1846 meaninglessness1853 unsuggestiveness1858 unexpressiveness1885 nonsense1942 1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will i. iii. 15 Such a Man would use these Terms must, irresistible, &c. with perfect Insignificence and Nonsense. 2. Want of significance, importance, or force; complete unimportance; contemptibility. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] smallness1541 nothingness1646 nonentity1654 insignificancy1661 non-significancy1670 insignificance1714 unimportance1751 inconsequence1759 non-entityism1846 negligibility1896 negligibleness1906 1714 S. Garth Dispensary (ed. 7) i. 10 My Annals are in mouldy Mildews wrought, With easie Insignificance of Thought. 1755 E. Young Centaur v, in Wks. (1757) IV. 216 If we can draw some moral from it, that will abate its insignificance, and give it some little weight. 1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature Demonstrative Evid. 27 Mr. Locke has shewn the insignificance of these axioms. 1820 W. Scott Monastery II. iii*. 125 A sufficient apology for a whole life of insignificance. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 329 The foreign commerce of Cologne sank into insignificance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1714 |
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