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Definition of "triviality" [triv•i•al•i•ty]

  • The quality or condition of being trivial. (noun)
  • Something trivial. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "triviality" in a sentence
  • "I believe that Mr. Brady's experimentation with financial Ludditism was a venture in triviality."
  • "Going to the particular case of the fine structure constant, allow me to recall a triviality: that it also depends of the point where the electroweak symmetry breaks."
  • "Bitch about The Washington Post's "triviality" all you want, but the story will hurt Edwards, and, really, as self-respecting bloggers looking for readers, why do you all want to keep repeating the same thing?"