UNIMPORTANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unimportance mean? 

• UNIMPORTANCE (noun)
  The noun UNIMPORTANCE has 2 senses:

1. the state of being humble and unimportant

2. the quality of not being important or worthy of note

  Familiarity information: UNIMPORTANCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNIMPORTANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being humble and unimportant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

humbleness; lowliness; obscureness; unimportance

Hypernyms ("unimportance" is a kind of...):

obscurity (an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known)

Derivation:

unimportant (not important)

unimportant (devoid of importance, meaning, or force)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of not being important or worthy of note

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("unimportance" is a kind of...):

value (the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unimportance"):

inessentiality (not of basic importance)

pettiness; puniness; slightness; triviality (the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous)

insignificance (the quality of having little or no significance)

Antonym:

importance (the quality of being important and worthy of note)

Derivation:

unimportant (not important)

unimportant (devoid of importance, meaning, or force)