as in smallness
the quality or state of being unimportant
the negligibility of so much that is churned out by weekly television
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Noun
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Mainstream culture has consistently glorified smallness as ideal for women’s health, but the key to high performance and aging well is strength over size.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
4 Feb. 2026 -
As microschools multiply, researchers are starting to track what happens when a model built on smallness starts to grow.—
Noah Alcala Bach,
San Antonio Express-News,
24 Jan. 2026
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Problems shrink into insignificance.—
Shilo Urban,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Nov. 2025
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Her difficulty lay in her distance from the random violence of insignificance.—
Rachel Cusk,
New Yorker,
24 Aug. 2025
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Sustainable, charitable, and delightfully petty, this gift proves Valentine’s Day can support bugs, love, pettiness and conservation all at once.—
Dianne Plummer,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Here’s a good summation of the pettiness.—
Chris Branch,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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“Negligibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negligibility. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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