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Definition of unimportance : Want of importance; triviality.

Synonyms:

inconsequentiality, inconsequentialness, abstruseness, low status, reconditeness, humility, concern, obscurity, lowliness, insignificancy, lowness, humbleness, obscureness, indifference

triviality, worthlessness

insignificance, minutia, banality, trivia, irrelevance, inconsequence, frivolity, triteness, insipidity, triflingness

Usage examples:

• On the one hand, there is the influence of the secular side of life, which makes normally for a greater tolerance of opinion, on the other side there is religion which can only tolerate a difference of opinion to the extent that religious doctrines assume a position of comparative unimportance. - "A Grammar of Freethought", Chapman Cohen.
• Both in thought and in feeling, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. - "Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy", Bertrand Russell.
• The spiritual man and woman can afford to take desperate chances, and live dangerously in the interests of their ideals; being delivered from the many unreal fears and anxieties which commonly torment us, and knowing the unimportance of possessions and of so- called success. - "The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day", Evelyn Underhill.