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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unimportance

Unimportance \Un`im*por"tance\, n. Want of importance; triviality.
--Johnson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unimportance

1751; see unimportant + -ance.

Wiktionary
unimportance

n. The property of lack of importance.

WordNet
unimportance
  1. n. the state of being humble and unimportant [syn: humbleness, obscureness]

  2. the quality of not being important or worthy of note [ant: 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.