insignificancy

American  

[in-sig-nif-i-kuhn-see] / ˌɪn sɪgˈnɪf ɪ kən si /

noun

insignificancies plural

1. insignificance.

2. an insignificant person or thing.

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• insignificancies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of insignificancy

First recorded in 1645–55; insignific(ant) + -ancy

Example Sentences

I must beg you also to accept my insignificancy.

From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig

When, by them, administration is convinced of its insignificancy, they are soon to be convinced of their own.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

There is but a step from conscious insignificancy to the loftiest pretension.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

Now, then, my very dear colleagues, who as shining luminaries guide the inferior bodies, it becomes you to examine and to use this work candidly, without regarding the meanness and insignificancy of the workman.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander

Give her a true conception of the vanity, folly, and insignificancy of all human things; and strengthen her so as to beget in her a sincere love of Thee in the midst of her sufferings. 

From The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces by Swift, Jonathan