insignificance
insignificance — noun
1. a state in which something or someone is seen as having little worth, size, or i
a state in which something or someone is seen as having little worth, size, or importance, and so is easily ignored or not given any attention.
Surrounded by Renaissance paintings in the museum hall, Mateo felt a deep sense of insignificance.
collocation: sense of insignificance
The insignificance of the problem became clear when the team solved it in five minutes.
pattern: insignificance of + noun
Élise was upset by the total insignificance of her opinions in Wednesday's staff meeting.
Next to a major hospital's annual budget, this programme's cost pales into insignificance.
The senator's speech about his early struggles only highlighted his current insignificance in national politics.
- unimportance
more direct and neutral; simply lack of importance
- triviality
suggests something is petty or not worth serious attention
- negligibility
formal; used when something is so small it can be disregarded
- significance
the quality of being important or meaningful
- importance
general term for having great value or meaning
文法句型
the insignificance of [noun]
sense/feeling of insignificance
用法筆記
This noun is most often uncountable and appears in patterns such as 'the insignificance of something' or after 'a sense/feeling of'. The fixed phrase 'pale into insignificance' is a common idiom meaning something becomes unimportant by comparison.