insignificance

American  

[in-sig-nif-i-kuhns] / ˌɪn sɪgˈnɪf ɪ kəns /

noun

1. the quality or condition of being insignificant; lack of importance or consequence.

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Other Word Forms

• self-insignificance
  noun

Etymology

Origin of insignificance

First recorded in 1690–1700; insignific(ancy) + -ance

Example Sentences

Perhaps Rowling isn’t so afraid of change after all, but rather fearful of owning up to the inherent insignificance of being one person in a world that treats all humans equally.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2025

Lola is a relative free spirit with an open heart but a sense of limits; Aimée’s performance emphasizes the essential innocence, or maybe insignificance, of her flirtations.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024

Almost always, she said, there is a predictable sequence in which people take-in an eclipse: it begins with a sense of wrongness and primal fear, followed by a feeling of connectedness and insignificance.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2024

In both movies, painful memories become wondrous hallucinations, a tower becomes a portal between worlds, and questions of reality versus fantasy, or old versus young, blur into insignificance.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Sometimes they receded of their own accord, and the room he lay in grew impossibly large, terrorizing him with the specter of his own insignificance.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy