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单词 insignificance
释义

insignificancen.

/ɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/
Forms: (Also 1700s -ence.)
Etymology: < insignificant adj. and n.: see -ance suffix.
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.
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