triviality

Other forms of triviality

plural

trivialities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about triviality

What does triviality mean?

triviality means "the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in triviality?

triviality has 5 syllables: triv-i-al-i-ty. The stress falls on "al". In IPA it is /ˌtɹɪviˈæləˌti/.

What is another word for triviality?

Close synonyms include pettiness, slightness, puniness, trifle, trivia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is triviality a common word?

triviality is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with triviality?

66 words rhyme with triviality. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.