triviality

English

Etymology

From trivial +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɹɪviˈæləti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

triviality (countable and uncountable, plural trivialities)

1. The quality of being trivial or unimportant.
2. Something which is trivial or unimportant.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trifle

   • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

     I propose to devote the remainder of mine to it, and can only regret the wasted years that lie behind me, squandered in trivialities.

Synonyms

• (partial): bathos

Translations

quality of being trivial

• Finnish: tyhjänpäiväisyys (fi), yhdentekevyys
• French: trivialité (fr) f
• Maori: hanganoatanga
• Polish: bagatelność f, błahość (pl) f, trywialność (pl) f
• Russian: тривиа́льность (ru) f (triviálʹnostʹ), бана́льность (ru) f (banálʹnostʹ), малова́жность (ru) f (malovážnostʹ), мелкоте́мье (ru) n (melkotémʹje) (of subject matter)

something trivial

• Finnish: jonninjoutavuus, tyhjänpäiväisyys (fi)
• Galician: parvada (gl) f
• Polish: bagatela (pl) f