nugacity
Americannoun
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triviality; insignificance.
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something insignificant or inconsequential; a trifle.
Usage
What does nugacity mean?
A nugacity is something trivial or unimportant. Nugacity can also mean the quality of being trivial or unimportant.
Nugacity is obscure and rarely used. It is related to the adjectives nugacious and nugatory, both of which mean “trivial” or “unimportant.”
Example: Many biology majors feel like the one required art class is a nugacity that doesn’t add to their education.
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Etymology
Origin of nugacity
1585–95; < Late Latin nūgācitās, equivalent to nūgāc- ( see nugacious) + -itās -ity
Example Sentences
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To confute the whims and superstitious nugacities of these Sermons, and the hundred other comments and interpretations 'ejusdem farinæ', would be a sad waste of time.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson
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