triviality

triviality
    n 1: the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
         [syn: {pettiness}, {triviality}, {slightness}, {puniness}]
    2: a detail that is considered insignificant [syn:
       {technicality}, {trifle}, {triviality}]
    3: something of small importance [syn: {triviality}, {trivia},
       {trifle}, {small beer}]
    

Triviality \Triv`i*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Trivialities}. [Cf. F.
   trivialit['e]]
   1. The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.
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   2. That which is trivial; a trifle.
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            The philosophy of our times does not expend itself
            in furious discussions on mere scholastic
            trivialities.                         --Lyon
                                                  Playfair.
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196 Moby Thesaurus words for "triviality":
      a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, absurdity,
      aimlessness, asininity, bagatelle, baseness, battiness, bauble,
      bean, bibelot, big deal, bit, bootlessness, brainlessness,
      brass farthing, buffoonery, button, cent, clownishness,
      crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, curio, cursoriness,
      daffiness, daintiness, deficiency, delicacy, desipience,
      diminutiveness, eccentricity, emptiness, epidermis, exiguity,
      exiguousness, exteriority, failure, farce, farthing, fatuity,
      fatuousness, feather, fecklessness, fewness, fig, fleabite,
      flimsiness, folderol, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness,
      fribble, frippery, frivolity, frivolousness, fruitlessness,
      futility, gaud, gewgaw, giddiness, gimcrack, gloss, goofiness,
      hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, hollowness, idiocy, idleness,
      imbecility, imperfection, impotence, inadequacy, inanity,
      incompetence, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsequentness,
      inconsiderableness, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficacy,
      ineptitude, insanity, insignificance, insufficiency, jest, joke,
      kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, levity, lightness, littleness,
      lunacy, madness, maladroitness, meagerness, meaninglessness,
      meanness, mediocrity, mere scratch, mindlessness, minikin,
      minuteness, minutiae, mockery, moderateness, molehill, niaiserie,
      no depth, no water, nugacity, nuttiness, otiosity, paltriness,
      peppercorn, pettiness, picayune, picayunishness, pin,
      pinch of snuff, pinprick, pointlessness, profitlessness, puniness,
      purposelessness, queerness, rap, rat race, red cent, rind,
      row of pins, rush, sappiness, scantiness, scratch, screwiness,
      senselessness, shabbiness, shallowness, shit, shoaliness,
      silliness, skin, slenderness, slightness, small, small beer,
      smallness, snap, sneeshing, sou, straw, stupidity, subnormality,
      superficiality, superficies, surface, technicality, the absurd,
      thoughtlessness, tininess, toy, trifle, triflingness, trinket,
      triteness, trivialness, tuppence, two cents, twopence,
      unimportance, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness,
      unskillfulness, vacuity, valuelessness, vanity, vapidity, veneer,
      vicious circle, vulgarity, wackiness, weirdness, whim-wham,
      witlessness, worthlessness, zaniness, zanyism