negligibility
State of mattering not
Negligibility is the quality of being so small or unimportant as to warrant no attention.
The word appears mostly in technical or formal contexts—statistics, risk assessment, legal arguments—where precise language matters: The negligibility of the side effects made the drug attractive.
In everyday speech, people more often say something "doesn't matter" or "isn't worth worrying about."
Unimportant small matter
- inconsequenceLack of meaningful effect
- unimportanceLack of consequence
- pettinessFocus on insignificant matters
- paltrinessTrivial, contemptible quality
insubstantiality · irrelevance · meaninglessness · nullity · negligibleness · immateriality · worthlessness · slightness
Of no real importance
- minimalSmallest amount needed
- infinitesimalQuantity approaching zero
- minusculeExtremely small in size
- piddlingInsignificantly small
inappreciable · nugatory · microscopic · imperceptible · fractional · incidental · peripheral · secondary
Not given consideration
- ignoredPurposely not noticed
- unnoticedNot perceived by anyone
- undervaluedRated below true worth
- unconsideredNot thought through
discounted · bypassed · glossed over · unheeded · slighted · omitted · underestimated · unappreciated
triviality
Unimportant small matter
- inconsequenceLack of meaningful effect
- unimportanceLack of consequence
- pettinessFocus on insignificant matters
paltriness · insubstantiality · irrelevance · meaninglessness · nullity · negligibleness · immateriality · worthlessness · slightness · meagerness
trifling
Of no real importance
- minimalSmallest amount needed
- infinitesimalQuantity approaching zero
- minusculeExtremely small in size
piddling · inappreciable · nugatory · microscopic · imperceptible · fractional · incidental · peripheral · secondary · inconsequential
disregarded
Not given consideration
- ignoredPurposely not noticed
- unnoticedNot perceived by anyone
- undervaluedRated below true worth
unconsidered · discounted · bypassed · glossed over · unheeded · slighted · omitted · underestimated · unappreciated · unremarked
negligibilitysignificance
Quality of mattering
importance · consequence · momentousness · weightiness · import
neglect, negligible, negligent, negligence, negligibly, negligently, non-negligible