unimportance

Examples

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• Parents' notions about the relative unimportance of physical education were perhaps unknowingly reinforced by the physical education teacher, Kelly (a pseudonym).

  Academic text (2006)

• Despite the relative unimportance of desertification as a direct contributor to global warming, there is a clear need to improve understanding of the desertification-related sources and sinks of greenhouse gases.

  Academic text (1993)

• Someone once said, "To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom."

  Redemption (2020)

• The outstanding characteristic, therefore, of the Jews as seen and treated in the classical Islamic world is their unimportance.

  Academic text (2015)

• However, I don't see how his general conclusion about the ultimate unimportance of institutions follows.

  Blog text (22)

• When the beaches are mentioned at all, the tone is usually dismissive, as if in spite of their massive size, their unimportance was obvious.

  Academic text (2005)

• "Prince Andrei mused on the unimportance of greatness..."

  The Peanuts Movie (2015)

• If Vere's actions are defensible, on the other hand, then any anomalies in his character and behavior are reduced to relative unimportance.

  Academic text (1993)

• The rest of the sites spoke only of the abandonment of Texas, its unimportance, and its distance from the empires that—often unknowingly—ruled over it.

  Academic text (2004)

• To Prasad, the strongest evidence of, and reason for the heterogeneous mode of Hindi filmmaking is the absence—the unimportance, even—of the script.

  Academic text (2006)

Synonyms

O

obscurity

vsunimportance

33 7.4

A time when a person or thing is unknown and not noticed

means lack of importance generally rather than only being unknown or hidden

I

irrelevance

vsunimportance

10 5.3

Something not related to the main topic

refers to general lack of importance rather than only lack of relation

I

insignificance

vsunimportance

7 5.8

A state of not being important or having little effect

is more general and names lack of importance or wider influence

T

triviality

vsunimportance

6 5.4

A small detail that does not matter

applies to overall lack of importance beyond mere small details

I

irrelevancy

vsunimportance

5 6.6

Something not connected to the main topic

means general lack of importance rather than being merely unrelated to a matter

W

worthlessness

vsunimportance

3 6.3

A feeling that you have no value or importance

stresses absence of importance rather than only lack of value or use

N

nonsignificance

vsunimportance

7.7

A state of being unimportant with no real effect

focuses on general lack of importance rather than only consequence

S

slightness

vsunimportance

6.6

A small matter that people think is unimportant and easy to ignore

covers broad lack of importance rather than merely small degree

N

negligibility

vsunimportance

8.6

So small or unimportant that it does not matter

is broader and refers to lack of importance not only smallness

I

inessentiality

vsunimportance

9.6

A state in which something is not necessary

is about simple lack of importance rather than missing essential need

I

immateriality

vsunimportance

9.7

Not important to the subject or discussion

refers to general lack of importance rather than being specific to one matter

E

extraneousness

vsunimportance

9.9

The fact of not being related or important to the main point

implies general lack of importance rather than just being extra to topic

I

indistinction

vsunimportance

9.6

A state of being unknown and not noticed by many people

points to broad low importance rather than simply being unknown or hard to notice

Antonyms

I

importance

663 1.0

A quality that makes something have great value or effect

S

significance

194 3.8

How important something is or how much it matters

How Important

significance

194 3.8

importance

663 1.0

unimportance

1 4.6

insignificance

7 5.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology