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UK
/tɹˌɪvɪˈælɪti/
]
[ US /ˌtɹɪviˈæɫəˌti/ ]
[ US /ˌtɹɪviˈæɫəˌti/ ]
NOUN
- a detail that is considered insignificant
- something of small importance
- the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
How To Use triviality In A Sentence
- No, no, no; you'd never find me wasting my time on such fruitless triviality.
- The music's lightness (but not triviality) belies the opera's seriousness.
- Why is modern life so obsessed with triviality?
- The 1990s produced a president perfectly suited to the time - a time of domesticity, triviality and self-absorption.
- The prison sentence seemed rather harsh, considering the triviality of the offence.
- To most teams, this would seem like a triviality.
- Apfelbaum refreshingly asserts that a sense of humor need not condemn the artist to triviality.
- Real practice was going to expose their triviality once and for all.
- The triviality of these people and their lives is staggering.
- The second lesson is about triviality.
