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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRIVIAL'ITY, n. Trivialness. [Not much used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous [syn: pettiness, triviality, slightness, puniness]
2: a detail that is considered insignificant [syn: technicality, trifle, triviality]
3: something of small importance [syn: triviality, trivia, trifle, small beer]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1598 1. the quality or state of being trivial 2. something trivial ; trifle

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Triviality Triv`i*al"i*ty, n.; pl. Trivialities. [Cf. F. trivialit['e]] 1. The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness. 2. That which is trivial; a trifle. The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities. --Lyon Playfair.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(trivialities) If you refer to something as a triviality, you think that it is unimportant and not serious. He accused me of making a great fuss about trivialities... Interviews with politicians were juxtaposed with news items of quite astonishing triviality. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Trivialness, unimportance, insignificance, indifference. 2. Trifle, small matter, bawble, nothing, bubble, thing of little value or consequence, thing of no moment, bagatelle.

Moby Thesaurus

a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, absurdity, aimlessness, asininity, bagatelle, baseness, battiness, bauble, bean, bibelot, big deal, bit, bootlessness, brainlessness, brass farthing, buffoonery, button, cent, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, curio, cursoriness, daffiness, daintiness, deficiency, delicacy, desipience, diminutiveness, eccentricity, emptiness, epidermis, exiguity, exiguousness, exteriority, failure, farce, farthing, fatuity, fatuousness, feather, fecklessness, fewness, fig, fleabite, flimsiness, folderol, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, fribble, frippery, frivolity, frivolousness, fruitlessness, futility, gaud, gewgaw, giddiness, gimcrack, gloss, goofiness, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, hollowness, idiocy, idleness, imbecility, imperfection, impotence, inadequacy, inanity, incompetence, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsequentness, inconsiderableness, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficacy, ineptitude, insanity, insignificance, insufficiency, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, levity, lightness, littleness, lunacy, madness, maladroitness, meagerness, meaninglessness, meanness, mediocrity, mere scratch, mindlessness, minikin, minuteness, minutiae, mockery, moderateness, molehill, niaiserie, no depth, no water, nugacity, nuttiness, otiosity, paltriness, peppercorn, pettiness, picayune, picayunishness, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pointlessness, profitlessness, puniness, purposelessness, queerness, rap, rat race, red cent, rind, row of pins, rush, sappiness, scantiness, scratch, screwiness, senselessness, shabbiness, shallowness, shit, shoaliness, silliness, skin, slenderness, slightness, small, small beer, smallness, snap, sneeshing, sou, straw, stupidity, subnormality, superficiality, superficies, surface, technicality, the absurd, thoughtlessness, tininess, toy, trifle, triflingness, trinket, triteness, trivialness, tuppence, two cents, twopence, unimportance, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unskillfulness, vacuity, valuelessness, vanity, vapidity, veneer, vicious circle, vulgarity, wackiness, weirdness, whim-wham, witlessness, worthlessness, zaniness, zanyism