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Meanings of insignificance in English

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The quality of having little or no significance.

insignificância
Usage of insignificance in English
1
The limitations of scarce data and large variances result in statistical insignificance.
Pubmed
2
Until 1573 the misery continued; and the shogunate meanwhile degenerated into insignificance.
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
3
When you receive news like this all other problems pale into insignificance.
The Guardian
4
The mortality in South Africa and the Philippines fades away to insignificance.
The People of the Abyss
5
Hundreds of moments of seeming insignificance combined to create Bananach's desired results.
Fragile Eternity
6
Her insignificance in the presence of so much magnificence faintly affected her.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
7
It is the triumph of insignificance, the apotheosis of foppery and folly.
Lectures on the English Poets; Delivered at the Surrey Instituti...
8
By this means he succeeded in relegating the Sadducees to utter insignificance.
Prolegomena to the History of Israel
9
He sat as it were in the dust, scorning his own insignificance.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
10
But the horizon grew rosy-red and the dropping moon paled into insignificance.
A Little Miss Nobody; Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall
11
I grew less anxious, even from the idea of my own insignificance.
Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America
12
Since he'd gotten involved with Del, the past had faded into insignificance.
Love- from his point of view!
13
This fading into insignificance of Cope and Agang are almost criminal failures.
The Guardian
14
He only goes there to hide his insignificance in a larger crowd.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 / A Mag...
15
No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863
16
The very thought shrivelled me with a sense of ignorance and insignificance.
Tracks of a Rolling Stone
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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