Crossword clues for triviality
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Triviality \Triv`i*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. Trivialities. [Cf. F. trivialit['e]]
The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.
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That which is trivial; a trifle.
The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities.
--Lyon Playfair.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "quality of being trivial," from Middle French trivialite or else from trivial + -ity. Meaning "a trivial thing or affair" is from 1610s. Related: Trivialities.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being trivial or unimportant. 2 Something which is trivial or unimportant.
WordNet
n. the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous [syn: pettiness, slightness]
a detail that is considered insignificant [syn: technicality, trifle]
something of small importance [syn: trivia, trifle, small beer]
Wikipedia
In mathematics, the adjective trivial is frequently used for objects (for example, groups or topological spaces) that have a very simple structure. The noun triviality usually refers to a simple technical aspect of some proof or definition. The origin of the term in mathematical language comes from the medieval trivium curriculum. The antonym nontrivial is commonly used by engineers and mathematicians to indicate a statement or theorem that is not obvious or easy to prove.
Usage examples of "triviality".
The fog was rolling in from the direction of Staten Island, blurring familiar landmarks, like clouds of memory overtaking the everyday trivialities.
The Second Level is a Hypostatic Union with the past, a union of substances beneath external differences, the trivialities of locations in space and time.
Or the hour brought a stroll with the French danseuse and her poodle, and a conversation about the mere trivialities of life, which a year or two, or even a few months ago, Bernardine would have condemned as beneath contempt, but, which were now taking their rightful place in her new standard of importances.
Often and often she felt that she could have leaped out towards the person talking to her, that she could have cried to him to put away his circumlocutions, his forms and his trivialities, and to let her see and feel what he really was.
Pammy was inspired to remember West Fourteenth Street, that smelly gymlike floor, the salving triviality of tap-dancing.
Helen Burns asked some slight question about her work of Miss Smith, was chidden for the triviality of the inquiry, returned to her place, and smiled at me as she again went by.
Such prizes ,as had been borne back, exciting though they seemed to the citizenry, were paltrya prancing homunculus, statuary of jade and gold dating back to the era of starflight, a calculating mechanism in the form of a waterfowla meager congeries of triviality.
Such prizes as had been borne back, exciting though they seemed to the citizenry, were paltrya prancing homunculus, statuary of jade and gold dating back to the era of starflight, a calculating mechanism in the form of a waterfowla meager congeries of triviality.
The only course may seem to be to forget the whole effort and become absorbed in trivialities, or to check out of the game by suicide or psychosis, and spend the rest of your days blabbering in an asylum.
The willingness of the principals to forgo further argument as the triviality which it in fact is and to petition directly the chambers of the historical absolute clearly indicates of how little moment are the opinions and of what great moment the divergences thereof.
So, Helen soon had five children crowded around her kitchen table eating cookies and milk, and Rafe's mother and sister sitting in her living room chit-chatting about trivialities.
In the general confusion and panic that gripped the battered nation over the following weeks, trivialities such as the Phu Lai fuckup were forgiven and forgotten.
Life should be lived, Friend Milo, not frittered away on trivialities.
It was quite ridiculous that such a triviality should improve the flavour of the gammon and spinach and fried eggs that the innkeeper set before him, but it was indeed the case.
In SF it has always been fatally easy to shrug off such truisms to dwell on the trivialities of SF as a career: the daily grind in the Old Baloney Factory.