Crossword clues for insignificance
insignificance
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insignificance \In`sig*nif"i*cance\, n.
The condition or quality of being insignificant; lack of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases.
Lack of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art.
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Lack of claim to consideration or notice; lack of influence or standing; meanness.
Reduce him, from being the first person in the nation, to a state of insignificance.
--Beattie.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from insignificant + -ance. Related: Insignificancy (1650s).
Wiktionary
n. the state of being insignificant
WordNet
n. the quality of having little or no significance [ant: significance]
Wikipedia
Insignificance is a 1985 British comedy-drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg, produced by Jeremy Thomas and Alexander Stuart, and adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name. The film is set in 1954, with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City. The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era, Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy, Joe DiMaggio, and Albert Einstein called The Actress, The Senator, The Ballplayer, and The Professor, respectively.
Insignificance is the third Drag City album by American musician Jim O'Rourke. It was released in 2001. O'Rourke uses Drag City for his more conventional work. It is the third of three albums recorded by O'Rourke to be named after films by Nicolas Roeg, and features percussionist Tim Barnes, Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche of Wilco (both of whom O'Rourke would later collaborate with as Loose Fur).
Insignificance is a mental or psychological state.
Insignificance may refer to:
- Insignificance (play) a 1982 stage play by Terry Johnson
- Insignificance (film), a 1985 film directed by Nicolas Roeg, drawn from Terry Johnson's stage play.
- Insignificance (Jim O'Rourke album), a 2001 album by Jim O'Rourke named after the film
- Insignificance (Porcupine Tree album)
- "Insignificance" (song), a song by Pearl Jam
People may face feelings of insignificance due to a number of causes, including having low self-esteem, being depressed, living in a huge, impersonal city, comparing themselves to wealthy celebrity success stories, working in a huge bureaucracy, or being in awe of a natural wonder.
Insignificance is the third studio album of Taiwanese Mandopop artist Hebe Tien, of girl group S.H.E. It was released on 29 November 2013 by HIM International Music and contains ten tracks.
Usage examples of "insignificance".
She had never had her own insignificance so painfully impressed upon her as in this Belgravian mansion, where the engagement, the enormous trousseau, the costly wedding presents, were matters of the deepest moment.
But in Germany most human faults and follies sink into comparative insignificance beside the enormity of walking on the grass.
Receptions at The Forks of Cypress were grand, but paled to insignificance compared with this.
There were other rubies in the necklace, magnificent rubies, but next to the centerpiece, they faded into insignificance.
We had viewed at close range the volcanoes of Opollonius, Secchi, Borda, Tycho and their mates, but all these paled into insignificance as there unrolled before us the panorama of the vast unknown.
We had viewed at close range the volcanoes of Opollonius, Secchi, Borda, Tycho and their mates, but all these paled into insignificance as there unrolled before us the panorama of the unknown.
And, as the grandeur of her insignificance rose before him, his own great Scheme for Disabled Thingumabobs that once had filled the heavens, shrank down into the size of a mere mouse-trap that would go into his pocket.
Laurence had begun to think their first establishment an unusual case, but their residence that night in the city of Wuchang dwarfed it into insignificance: eight great pavilions arranged in a symmetric octagonal shape, joined by narrower enclosed halls, around a space deserving to be called a park more than a garden.
Smith, as we have seen, estimated at their full insignificance such flummeries as the coronation of Powhatan, and the foolishness of taxing the energies of the colony to explore the country for gold and chase the phantom of the South Sea.
Eusebeia Mazaca was attended to, the piles of bodies burned, and the ashes buried beneath a huge tumulus mound which dwindled to insignificance when seen against the bulk of Mount Argaeus, its backdrop.
In either you are at once made at home by a perception of its greatness, in which there is no quality of aggression, as there always seems to be in minor places as well as in minor men, and you gratefully accept its sublimity as a fact in no way contrasting with your own insignificance.
And reducing it all to insignificance, Carbuncle itself, crouching like a great sheltering beast overhead.
But we try to bear in mind that these miserable and spiritually impoverished Indians—or Aztecs, as most Spaniards now refer to this particular tribe or nation of them hereabouts—are inferior to all the rest of mankind, and therefore, in their insignificance, deserve our tolerant indulgence.
The insignificance of earth in relation to the universe is not a modem discovery: nearly two thousand years ago Ptolemy (Almagest, bk. 1, ch.
Here he thought he was the one who had to be wary of dis covery, and all along he had been traveling in the company of someone who had committed an offense beside which Cheelo Montoya's entire lifetime of minor misdeeds and in fractions paled into insignificance.