trivialization

Examples

• All

• The constant trivialization of mental health issues can prevent individuals from seeking the help they need.

• The news media do not seem to report the trivialization and equity problems in statewide testing to their readers.

  Academic text (2003)

• The resulting trivialization of information leaves television viewers well entertained, but not well informed or well prepared to respond to events.

  Academic text (1999)

• Native American activists have greatly castigated these works for their trivialization and commercialization of Native American spirituality.

  Academic text (2000)

• Voters may watch Jerry Springer, and they may vote for Jesse Ventura, but it is at least possible that in doing so they are responding to the trivialization of politics by politicians and those who cover them.

  Academic text (2000)

• Few events can have so consummately summed up the corrosive trivialization of culture now perpetrated by those entrusted with preserving it.

  Academic text (1999)

• The celebration of African "difference" and essentialist constructions of African cultural identity is an understandable reaction to the unrelieved trivialization of African cultures in Western representations of the continent.

  Academic text (1998)

• Many people criticize the trivialization of serious historical events in popular media.

• Her comments were seen as a trivialization of the struggles faced by marginalized communities.

Synonyms

U

understatement

vstrivialization

70 5.6

Saying something in a way that makes it seem less important, serious, or bad than it really is

reduces importance or seriousness without aiming for irony

B

belittling

vstrivialization

1 6.2

An action that makes someone seem unimportant or less valuable

does it by lowering perceived importance rather than treating neutrally

B

belittlement

vstrivialization

1 7.1

Making someone feel small or unimportant

treats importance or seriousness as smaller rather than focusing on worth

T

tapinosis

vstrivialization

• Literature

9.9

A way of speaking that makes something seem less serious or important than it really is on purpose

is the broader act of making something seem less important or serious

D

de-emphasis

vstrivialization

5.3

Reducing the importance of something in a policy or practice

targets judged importance or seriousness rather than just visibility

U

underemphasis

vstrivialization

7.4

Not giving enough attention or importance to something

portrays something as less important, not only failing to give attention

How Dismissive

disparagement

3 8.1

belittlement

1 7.1

trivialization

• US

1 7.1

minimization

5 5.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology