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insignificancy en · NOUN

Etymology

From insignificant + -cy or insignificance + -y.

Meanings

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Lack of signification; meaninglessness.
2. (countable, uncountable) Unimportance, insignificance.
   • 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. 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:
3. (countable, uncountable) An insignificant person or thing.

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