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UK
/ˌʌnɪmpˈɔːtəns/
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NOUN
- the quality of not being important or worthy of note
- the state of being humble and unimportant
How To Use unimportance In A Sentence
- This action demonstrates, however, the relative unimportance of the homosexual aspect to this story.
- The obvious explanation of the strike's relative unimportance is that it failed while the others, either in whole or in part, succeeded.
- That is practically what Michelet did, and though the garrulous old gossip drivelled endlessly about matters of supreme unimportance and ecstasized in his mild way over trivial anecdotes which he expanded beyond all proportion, and though his sentimentality and chauvinism sometimes discredited his quite plausible conjectures, he was nevertheless the only French historian who had overcome the limitation of time and made another age live anew before our eyes. Là-bas
- They even serve today as a basis for the relative unimportance of the ascorbates in oral health and sickness.
- As if there had never been any doubts in his mind, the image of Paul regained both its pleasantness and relative unimportance. UNREASONABLE DOUBT
- In fact, its unimportance makes your behaviour quite foolish.
- If so, the task of understanding biological function is much easier: the chemical processes involved in proton exchange need be studied with only enough resolution to verify their relative unimportance.
- I lost myself in something like nirvana, grew so subject to the idea of vastness in geological time that all human desires and purposes shrivelled to ridiculous unimportance. Born in Exile
- In so doing, he is indicating the relative unimportance of the proof itself.
- Another significant issue was the relative unimportance attached to consolidated financial statements.