Definitions for triviality

triviality triv·i·al·i·ty

Spelling: [triv-ee-al-i-tee]
IPA: /ˌtrɪv iˈæl ɪ ti/

Triviality is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in triviality (aiiilrttvy).

Definitions for triviality

noun

  1. something trivial; a trivial matter, affair, remark, etc.:
  2. Also, trivialness [triv-ee-uh l-nis] /ˈtrɪv i əl nɪs/ (Show IPA). trivial quality or character.

Origin of triviality

First recorded in 1590-1600; trivial + -ity

Examples for triviality

Stone brushed this triviality aside with a wave of his heavy hand.

His indolence, his triviality, his worldliness become her own.

All omit one or other of the absolute essentials, or dwell on some triviality.

The triviality or vulgarity does not depend on what we do, but on the spirit in which it is done.

What he could not pardon was triviality, and he hoped that no decent woman could pardon it either.

She thought it anomalous in him that he could be so thoroughly absorbed in a triviality.

And that aspect has nothing of triviality in it, it is full of beauty and joy.

And you will accomplish this triviality by means of Huxley's comet, I suppose?

Indeed what's most depressing about Ngai's terms is their smallness, their triviality.

But she did not suffer so much, because she despised the triviality of these other people.

Word Value for triviality
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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