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noun

Triviality n. (pl. trivialities)

The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.

That which is trivial; a trifle. "The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities."

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Etymology of 'Triviality'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Triviality" Quotes from Famous Books

... week," says I, "while you were away in London, he ran young Richards through the lungs over some triviality, and they say he ...

— The Honourable Mr. Tawnish • Jeffery Farnol

... you he had the finest place in the world, and the finest pictures in the world, yet these things did not save him from unhappiness. He could not understand that happiness is attained through renunciation. He had never renounced anything, and so his life was a mere triviality. The clearness of her vision surprised her; she paused a moment and then continued. He must always be amused, he could not bear to be alone. Distraction, distraction, distraction was his one cry. She had to combat the spectre ...

— Evelyn Innes • George Moore

... sky as by a thunderbolt, by the height of the Waterworks Tower on Campden Hill. I don't know whether Londoners generally realise how high it looks when one comes out, in this way, almost immediately under it. For the second it seemed to me that at the foot of it even human war was a triviality. For the second I felt as if I had been drunk with some trivial orgie, and that I had been sobered by the shock of that shadow. A moment afterwards, I realised that under it was going on something more enduring than stone, and something wilder ...

— The Napoleon of Notting Hill • Gilbert K. Chesterton

... is a long thin fellow, one James Hart, noted for his aversion to the delicacies of the table and his dismissal of cookery as a triviality unworthy of the consideration of a serious man. Am ...

— The Border Watch - A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand • Joseph A. Altsheler

... considerable faculty, which however, had shaped itself gigmanically only. Fond of quizzing, yet not very maliciously. Has a broad, black brow, indicating force and penetration, but the lower half of the face diminishing into the character at best of distinctness, almost of triviality." ...

— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson

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