insignificance

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It also makes the £235.4m net spend from the five years previous pale into insignificance.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2024

Lola is a relative free spirit with an open heart but a sense of limits; Aimée’s performance emphasizes the essential innocence, or maybe insignificance, of her flirtations.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024

A grain of sand is generally used for expressing tininess, or insignificance.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2023

Coined by legendary psychoanalyst Alfred Adler in the 1920s, the term initially described children driven by their small size and social insignificance to strive for power over their environment.

From National Geographic • Nov. 22, 2023

Hubble’s discovery that the universe was expanding, and the realization of the insignificance of our own planet in the vastness of the universe, were just the starting point.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking