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Having no important effects or influence
Answer for the clue "Having no important effects or influence ", 13 letters:
inconsequence
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Word definitions for inconsequence in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Latin inconsequentia , from inconsequens (see inconsequent ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inconsequence \In*con"se*quence\, n. [L. inconsequentia: cf. F. incons['e]quence.] The quality or state of being inconsequent; lack of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. --Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being inconsequent.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. having no important effects or influence [ant: consequence ]
Usage examples of inconsequence.
It was all about the Channel tunnel and a landscape awash in Eurotrash, and French fashion victims, and acid rain, and lugubrious Belgians, and Iranian language students, and lager louts swilling Heineken, and football hooligans, and holes in the ozone layer, and Italian playboys, and South American drug lords, and Swiss banks, and AmEx Goldcards, and the greenhouse effect, and the Age of Inconsequence, and soon and so forth.
Then, quite slowly, ja-Erh’aoa’s hands loosened again, and he said, with apparent inconsequence, “How is your guest, Chauvelin?
She looked forward to his visits, to their serious conversations after the frivolity and inconsequences of the Cartwright daughters.
Their sound works not so much to ironize performatively upon those old gender binaries, as to fritter them away into inconsequence.