insignificancy

English

Etymology

insignificant +‎ -cy or insignificance +‎ -y

Noun

insignificancy (countable and uncountable, plural insignificancies)

1. (obsolete) Lack of signification; meaninglessness.
2. Unimportance, insignificance.
   • 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:

     The argument may fairly be extended to women; for, seldom occupied by serious business, the pursuit of pleasure gives that insignificancy to their character which renders the society of the great so insipid.

3. An insignificant person or thing.