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Antonyms for unimportance


Grammar : Noun
Spell : im-pawr-tns
Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈpɔr tns



Definition of unimportance

Origin :
  • c.1500, from Middle French importance or directly from Medieval Latin importantia, from importantem (see important).
  • noun insignificance
  • noun humbleness
Example sentences :
  • But a sense of my own unimportance has saved me––or the world, at any rate––from such laments.
  • Extract from : « Hidden Water » by Dane Coolidge
  • Rachel had managed to leave behind a feeling of the unimportance of everybody but Rachel.
  • Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht
  • The birth of the child only served to accentuate her unimportance in the house.
  • Extract from : « Artists' Wives » by Alphonse Daudet
  • As never before, Susan felt the curse of the tradition of the unimportance of women.
  • Extract from : « Susan B. Anthony » by Alma Lutz
  • It makes the individual helpless, and crushes him with a sense of his unimportance.
  • Extract from : « The Psychology of Nations » by G.E. Partridge
  • It's more a sense of apprehension, a realization of my own unimportance.
  • Extract from : « Desert Conquest » by A. M. Chisholm
  • One of the first lessons I learnt in Spain was the unimportance of time.
  • Extract from : « Things seen in Spain » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
  • Do you not see, our pompous friend, that you are only pointing your own unimportance?
  • Extract from : « The Potiphar Papers » by George William Curtis
  • It was in fact the unimportance of the occasion that made him thus yield to his feeling.
  • Extract from : « William Ewart Gladstone » by James Bryce
  • No doubt it was part of the game, and done to impress me with a due sense of my unimportance.
  • Extract from : « The Protector » by Harold Bindloss

Synonyms for unimportance

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