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The quality of not being important or worthy of note
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unimportance
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Word definitions for unimportance in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unimportance \Un`im*por"tance\, n. Want of importance; triviality. --Johnson.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being humble and unimportant [syn: humbleness , obscureness ] the quality of not being important or worthy of note [ant: importance ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1751; see unimportant + -ance .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of lack of importance.
Usage examples of unimportance.
The tug of the unfinished chase was very faint, and whether Allyx and Showman ever sired another foal seemed a matter of supreme unimportance.
Again, Mata Safi supplied a delightful shrug that reduced Manhattan to absolute unimportance.
When we gaze, of a moonless clear night, on the Heavens glittering with stars, and know that each fixed star of all the myriads is a Sun, and each probably possessing its retinue of worlds, all peopled with living beings, we sensibly feel our own unimportance in the scale of Creation, and at once reflect that much of what has in different ages been religious faith, could never have been believed, if the nature, size, and distance of those Suns, and of our own Sun, Moon, and Planets, had been known to the Ancients as they are to us.