Synonyms for insignificance
ˌɪn sɪgˈnɪf ɪ kənsin·signif·i·cance

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1. insignificancenoun

   Antonyms:
   significance

2. insignificancenoun

   Antonyms:
   significance

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1. insignificancenoun

   the quality of having little or no significance

   Antonyms:
   significance

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1. • Unimportance

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1. insignificancenoun

   Synonyms:
   unimportance, paltriness, triviality, emptiness, nothingness

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1. insignificancenoun

   Synonyms:
   unimportance, pettiness, immateriality, triviality, inanity

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1. List of paraphrases for "insignificance":

   irrelevance, negligibility

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How to use insignificance in a sentence?

1. unknown:

   To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

2. Christen Kuikoua:

   It would be profoundly tragic to strive relentlessly for significance, only to be forsaken by God, as my life and illusions shrouded my vision, making me too consumed by self-importance to remember the humbling truth of my very insignificance.

3. Aesop:

   Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

4. Steward Observatory:

   Cloud-outs are traumatic events, if we would have seen the total eclipse, everything else would have just vanished into insignificance.

5. William Hazlitt:

   If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.