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Type Words
Synonyms pettiness, puniness, slightness
Type of unimportance
Has types joke
Derivation trivial
Type Words
Synonyms small beer, trifle, trivia
Type of object, physical object
Has types bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity
Type Words
Synonyms trifle
Type of item, point, detail
Derivation trivial

Examples of triviality

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It also illustrates the triviality of some of the advancements of the past decade.
From the business.time.com
At the very least, this should be a warning to anybody considering that triviality.
From the iftomm2003.com
I'm certain you'll discover a number of sort of interest in that triviality.
From the iftomm2003.com
We are allowed to comment on a triviality such as Twitter raising some cash.
From the guardian.co.uk
To begin with, the mirror gives us only an image, and this is a triviality.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
It's hard enough to do using that justice, as far as this triviality goes.
From the iftomm2003.com
Previous limitations would now be a mere triviality, at worst a slight inconvenience.
From the forbes.com
From the bottom of my heart, what I have is a prepossession relative to my triviality.
From the iftomm2003.com
Chinese posters and many Asians are sometimes obsessed with the triviality of diplomacy.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Pettiness: the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
  • Technicality: a detail that is considered insignificant
  • Something of small importance
  • (trivial) fiddling: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; " ...
  • (trivial) superficial: of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"
  • (trivial) concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"
  • The trivia (singular trivium, adjective trivial) are the three lower Artes Liberales, i.e. grammar, rhetoric and logic. These were the topics of basic education, foundational to the quadrivia of higher education, and hence the material of basic education, of interest only to undergraduates.
  • In mathematics, the adjective trivial is frequently used for objects (for examples, groups or topological spaces) that have a very simple structure. The noun triviality usually refers to a simple technical aspect of some proof or definition.
  • (trivial) Of little significance or value; Common, ordinary; Concerned with or involving trivia; Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic; Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case; Self-evident; Pertaining to the trivium