insignificance
noun
in·sig·nif·i·cance
ˌin(t)-sig-ˈni-fi-kən(t)s 
: the quality or state of being insignificant
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Examples of insignificance in a Sentence
a tabloid newspaper devoted to people and events of astonishing insignificance
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Reminded of my human insignificance, the fear melts away.
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Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
And the phrase — the command, in a way — dissolves into insignificance.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
The significant insignificance of language has long been a preoccupation of his fiction, which plumbs the failures of storytelling to capture (or enhance) the experience of life.
—Maya Binyam, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
Today, American policy-makers must choose with respect to AI: freedom or technocracy, prosperity or economic insignificance.
—David McGarry, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024
In both movies, painful memories become wondrous hallucinations, a tower becomes a portal between worlds, and questions of reality versus fantasy, or old versus young, blur into insignificance.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
To act at all today—in relation to communities, in relation to the climate—requires an embrace of one’s own insignificance in the larger scheme of things.
—Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
Few who witness it ever forget the feeling of sublimity caused by the perception of their own insignificance when set against the spectacular backdrop of the incomprehensible vastness of Donald Trump’s crimes.
—Nathaniel Stein, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
But there lies the rub, because Big Business lobbies have done everything in their power to challenge the OSHA process and ensure that whatever standard finally emerges will be shot through with loopholes and diluted into insignificance.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
And the phrase — the command, in a way — dissolves into insignificance.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
The significant insignificance of language has long been a preoccupation of his fiction, which plumbs the failures of storytelling to capture (or enhance) the experience of life.
—Maya Binyam, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
Today, American policy-makers must choose with respect to AI: freedom or technocracy, prosperity or economic insignificance.
—David McGarry, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024
In both movies, painful memories become wondrous hallucinations, a tower becomes a portal between worlds, and questions of reality versus fantasy, or old versus young, blur into insignificance.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
To act at all today—in relation to communities, in relation to the climate—requires an embrace of one’s own insignificance in the larger scheme of things.
—Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
Few who witness it ever forget the feeling of sublimity caused by the perception of their own insignificance when set against the spectacular backdrop of the incomprehensible vastness of Donald Trump’s crimes.
—Nathaniel Stein, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
But there lies the rub, because Big Business lobbies have done everything in their power to challenge the OSHA process and ensure that whatever standard finally emerges will be shot through with loopholes and diluted into insignificance.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
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“Insignificance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insignificance. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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insignificance
noun
in·sig·nif·i·cance
ˌin(t)-sig-ˈnif-i-kən(t)s
: the quality or state of being insignificant
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