negligibleness

State of inconsequence

The quality of being so small or unimportant as to warrant little attention.

A rare and somewhat awkward noun form—negligibility serves the same purpose and appears more often.

Both describe amounts or effects too minor to matter: The negligibleness of the risk made the decision easy.

insignificance

unimportance

Lack of consequence

meaninglessness · immateriality · worthlessness · pointlessness · pettiness · nullity · dispensability · superfluousness · marginality · inconsiderableness

minuteness

speck

Minute visible particle

  • particleMinute piece of matter
  • traceMinute remnant or pursue
  • grainCereal plant's harvest unit

atom · molecule · iota · pittance · smidgen · modicum · scintilla · fraction · sliver · shred

oversight

overlooked

Not noticed or considered

forgotten · unheeded · unobserved · bypassed · undetected · slighted · unconsidered · unacknowledged · skipped · dismissed

Opposites
importance/significance

negligiblenesssignificance

Quality of mattering

importance · consequence · momentousness · moment · gravity

magnitude/size

negligiblenesssubstantialness

Quality of being considerable

immensity · vastness · enormity · hugeness · sizableness

Family

neglect, neglected, negligible, neglectful, negligent, negligence, negligibly, negligently, neglectfulness

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G