insignificancy
English edit
Etymology edit
insignificant + -cy or insignificance + -y
Noun edit
insignificancy (countable and uncountable, plural insignificancies)
- (obsolete) Lack of signification; meaninglessness.
- Unimportance, insignificance.
- 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews, […], 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.
- An insignificant person or thing.