What does "insignificance" mean?
Insignificance: Want of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art.
Additional senses
- 2.Want of claim to consideration or notice; want of influence or standing; meanness. Reduce him, from being the first person in the nation, to a state of insignificance. Beattie.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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