inconsequentiality

as in negligibility
the quality or state of being unimportant the inconsequentiality of a question before the council seemed to have no bearing upon the amount of time wasted discussing it

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Noun
  • Identify every instance of victim language, limitation beliefs, or smallness thinking.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Hawley, who directed the premiere, brings an impressive sense of scale to the action, conveying the hugeness of the spaceship and its urban crash zone, contrasted with the smallness of the figures trying to make their way through the mayhem.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Kushner heaps flashback upon flashback; minor characters flare promisingly to life—a creepy uncle of Lucien’s, a disgruntled ex-Moulinard—before sputtering out, victims of their own inconsequence.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Linda, frustrated by her life of inconsequence, seeks refuge in a snack pack of sour cream and onion chips because all feelings are edible on Impeachment.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2021
Noun
  • Her difficulty lay in her distance from the random violence of insignificance.
    Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • His groundbreaking work reveals how a hidden epidemic of insignificance is quietly eroding engagement, trust, and performance in organizations, and what leaders can do to reverse it.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • That’s the kind of extreme pettiness that Row Z can firmly get behind.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The American people are seeking solace and inspiration from its leaders, not pettiness and skullduggery.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Voisin — who played another hero of a French classic in Xavier Giannoli’s 2021 adaptation of Balzac’s Lost Illusions — carries the entire drama as a lost soul whose physical beauty (perfect jawline, killer abs) can hardly conceal the emptiness inside of him.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
  • When Scout died, Watson was left grappling with an emptiness that followed her home each day.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Inconsequentiality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inconsequentiality. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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