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Definition: Triviality |
TrivialityNoun1. The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous. 2. A detail that is considered insignificant. 3. Something of small importance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "triviality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: TrivialitySynonyms: pettiness (n), slightness (n), small beer (n), technicality (n), trifle (n), trivia (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inutility | Vanitas vanitatum, vanity, inanity, worthlessness, nugacity; triviality; (unimportance). |
Unimportance | Triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness; Adjective:; poverty; smallness; vanity; (uselessness); matter of indifference; no object. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Triviality |
| English words defined with "triviality": bathos ♦ Trivialism, Trivialities. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "triviality": the literature. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You seem to be displaying signs of triviality. (The Importance of Being Earnest; writing credit: Oliver Parker; Oscar Wilde) | |
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| "Triviality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Triviality" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
triviality | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "triviality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | banaliteit (banality, platitude, triteness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vend i përbashkët, parëndësi (immateriality, insignificance, insignificancy), çikërrimë (cheese paring, jiggery pokery, nothing, pin, pin head, trifle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نوافل, تفاهة (banality, inanity, insignificance, insignificancy, insipidity, nothingness, nullity, pettiness, platitude, prosaism), عديم الأهمية (inconsequence, insignificant, pettiness, trivial), إبتذال (platitude, prosaism, prose, routine, triteness), شىء تافه (bagatelle, bauble, bosh, bullshit, damn, duffer, dust, fluff, frivolity, froth, gewgaw, hog, joke, piffling, small beer, tripe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тривиалност, незначително нещо (toy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | triviálnost, všednost (familiarity, platitude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | banaliteit (banality, pattern, platitude, stencil, template, triteness), alledaagsheid (banality, platitude, triteness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | banaleco (banality, platitude, triteness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیش پاافتادگی (Platitude), ناچیزی , ابتذال (Platitude, Truism), بی موردی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tyhjänpäiväisyys (trifle, trifling matter), joutavuus (futility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | manque d'importance, manque de valeur, inutilité, futilité, banalité (triteness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Plattheit (cliché, commonplace, dullness, flatness, platitude, platitudinousness, vacuity, vacuousness), Gehaltlosigkeit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μικρολογία (haggle), μηδαμινότησ (nonentity, nothingness, nullity, paltriness, trashiness, worthlessness), μηδαμινότητα (nobody, nonentity, nothingness, nullity, trashiness, worthlessness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קט ו יות (meanness, niggling, pettiness), ע ין פעוט, חוסר חשיבות (insignificancy), "בר של מ" בכך (bagatelle, insignificant matter, trifle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jelentéktelenség (futility, immateriality, insignificance, insignificancy, irrelevance, irrelevancy, lightness, littleness, negligibility, paltriness, unimportance), csekélység (bagatelle, jot, paucity, pettiness, trifle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kesepelean. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | frivolezza (frivolity, frivolousness, froth, levity), banalit (banality, commonplace, insignificance, insignificancy, platitude, triteness, trivia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fardailys (folly, frivolity, futility, insignificance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ivialitytray banalidade (banality, commonplace, platitude, trifling, triteness, truism, whimsy). (various references) lucru fãrã valoare (chaff, fillip, fox-fire, rap), lipsã de importanţã (immateriality, indifference, nugacity, pettiness), banalitate (banality, bromide, commonplace, triteness). (various references) тривиальность (banality). (various references) trivijalnost (fiddling, trivia), svakidašnjost, beznačajnost (immateriality, insignificance, insignificancy, irrelevance, littleness, meaninglessness). (various references) trivialidades (trivia), trivialidad (banality, bathos, bromide, commonplace), superficialidad (perfunctoriness, shallowness, superficiality), pavada (silliness, silly thing), nimiedad (littleness, pinhead), insignificancia (insignificance, insignificancy, negligibility, peanut), futilidad (futility, inanity, spillikin), frivolidad (dalliance, frivolity, idleness, levity, skittishness), falta de seriedad (flippancy), banalidad (banality, commonplace, triteness). (various references) trivialitet (pettiness), struntsak (bauble, falderal, fiddle, kickshaw, trifle), obetydlighet (futility, insignificance, insignificancy, minuteness), banalitet (banality, commonness, platitude), bagatell (bagatelle, fiddle, fluff, pettiness, pinpoint, small matter, trifle). (various references) saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, bullshit, cock, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, horseshit, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, shits, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), değersizlik (insignificance, insignificancy, paltriness, trashiness, vanity), abeslik (silliness), önemsizlik (indifference, insignificance, insignificancy, lightness, littleness, paltriness, puniness, slightness, smallness, unimportance). (various references) тривіальність (banality, platitude), незначність (exiguity, exility, insignificance, littleness, negligibility, nothingness), дрібниця (bagatelle, barley-straw, fillip, minim, non essential, nonsense, nothing, nothingism, nought, trifle, whim-wham). (various references) tính chất tầm thường (banality, lowliness, ordinariness), tính chất không quan trọng điều vô giá trị, điều tầm thường. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Triviality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: radiality, trivialty, trivility. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "triviality" (pronounced tri'vēa"lutē) |
| 6 | -ē a" l u t ē | collegiality, confidentiality, congeniality, extraterritoriality, geniality, impartiality, materiality, partiality, reality, speciality, unreality. |
| 5 | -a" l u t ē | abnormality, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, commonality, conditionality, constitutionality, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, eventuality, fatality, finality, formality, frugality, functionality, generality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impersonality, individuality, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, personality, plurality, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, rationality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, universality, venality, vitality. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | ability, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, credulity, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, equality, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, fidelity, flammability, flexibility, fragility, frivolity, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, incredulity, indestructibility, inequality, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, polity, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, quality, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, seasonality, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-i-l-r-t-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: virility, vitality. | |
-3 letters: trivial. | |
-4 letters: airily, artily, rattly, tartly, trivia, yttria. | |
-5 letters: atilt, laity, litai, lyart, lytta, ratty, rival, riyal, tarty, trail, trait, trial, viral, vital, vitta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-i-l-r-t-t-v-y" | |
+3 letters: ultravirility. | |
+4 letters: intransitively, retrievability. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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