Synonyms of insignificance

insignificance

noun

ˌin(t)-sig-ˈni-fi-kən(t)s 

as in negligibility

the quality or state of being unimportant

a tabloid newspaper devoted to people and events of astonishing insignificance

Synonyms & Similar Words

• negligibility
• smallness
• pettiness
• emptiness
• inconsequence
• inconsequentiality
• littleness
• triviality
• immateriality
• slightness
• nullity
• worthlessness
• inconsiderableness
• insignificancy
• valuelessness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• importance
• significance
• moment
• weight
• magnitude
• consequence
• value
• import
• bigness
• weightiness
• substance
• worth

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of insignificance

But the film makes its own insignificance a virtue, then uses that to slip us into an unexpectedly moving story. —Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2024

For one thing, there was the sheer, unexpected scale of the rout: Modi’s coalition won such a commanding majority that the Congress Party, which had ruled India with few interruptions since independence, was driven into near insignificance. —Mohammad Ali, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2020

This, however, plays into insignificance against spyware, which has increased by a shocking 101%. —Davey Winder, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

While our own view is that UFOs, or UAP, emphatically do not represent any truly anomalous physical phenomena such as an extraterrestrial presence, this nevertheless does not consign ufology to insignificance. —Luis Cayetano Simmari, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2024