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triviality

English

Etymology

trivial +? -ity

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?t??vi?æl?ti/

Noun

triviality (countable and uncountable, plural trivialities)

  1. The quality of being trivial or unimportant.
  2. Something which is trivial or unimportant.
    • 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
      I propose to devote the remainder of mine to it, and can only regret the wasted years that lie behind me, squandered in trivialities.

Synonyms

  • (partial): bathos

Translations

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whimsy

English

Alternative forms

  • whimsey

Etymology

Probably from whims +? -y. Related to whim-wham, whim.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?w?mzi/, /???mzi/

Noun

whimsy (usually uncountable, plural whimsies)

  1. A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
  2. An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
  3. (mining) A whim (capstan or vertical drum).
  4. A jigsaw puzzle piece that has been cut into a recognizable shape, as if on a whim; often the shape is representative of the theme of the image used for the puzzle.

Translations

Verb

whimsy (third-person singular simple present whimsies, present participle whimsying, simple past and past participle whimsied)

  1. (transitive) To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.

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