Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being trivial; triviality.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Quality or state of being trivial.

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  • noun Quality or state of being trivial.

Etymologies

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trivial +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Would the trivialness of the act of opening play a part?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Internet, The Fourth Amendment, and Technology Neutrality: A Response to Horowitz 2010

  • While it is easy to write off these petty questions and discussions as an inevitable part of the political process, the trivialness of the presidential campaign is actually a recent development in American history.

    Michael Bendetson: Media Madness Michael Bendetson 2012

  • Would the trivialness of the act of opening play a part?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Internet, The Fourth Amendment, and Technology Neutrality: A Response to Horowitz 2010

  • For once we are lifted out of the trivialness and dust of politics into the region of truth and manhood.

    Matthew Yglesias » Another State Bites the Dust 2007

  • There is much that could be said about this latest Bush travesty of attempted Rovian image-making, but mostly I feel a large sadness about the trivialness of it.

    Steve Cobble: Salt 2008

  • Yet I find it not to be an essential ingredient, and after going without it for a year am still in the land of the living; and I am glad to escape the trivialness of carrying a bottleful in my pocket, which would sometimes pop and discharge its contents to my discomfiture.

    Walden 2004

  • It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations.

    Walden 2004

  • Snug in Concord, Henry David Thoreau hailed the later career of John Brown, the greatest of the antislavery killers: “we are lifted out of the trivialness and dust of politics into the region of truth and manhood.”

    America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

  • It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations.

    Walden, or Life in the woods 1854

  • Yet I find it not to be an essential ingredient, and after going without it for a year am still in the land of the living; and I am glad to escape the trivialness of carrying a bottle-full in my pocket, which would sometimes pop and discharge its contents to my discomfiture.

    Walden, or Life in the woods 1854

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