triviality
Something of inconsequence
Triviality is the quality of being unimportant or inconsequential: Don't waste time on such trivialities.
A triviality is a minor matter, something not worth serious attention.
The word often carries mild dismissiveness—calling something a triviality suggests it doesn't merit the concern being given to it.
Fastening securely to position
- stereotypingOversimplified group-based judgments
- confirmation biasPreferring belief-supporting information
- hindsight biasIllusion of prior knowledge
- framing effectBias from how options are worded
sunk cost fallacy · groupthink · halo effect · bandwagon effect · recency bias · overconfidence · selective attention · cognitive dissonance
anchoring
Fastening securely to position
- stereotypingOversimplified group-based judgments
- confirmation biasPreferring belief-supporting information
- hindsight biasIllusion of prior knowledge
framing effect · sunk cost fallacy · groupthink · halo effect · bandwagon effect · recency bias · overconfidence · selective attention · cognitive dissonance · negativity bias
- frivolousnesssilliness, whimsy, playfulness, levity, giddiness
- futilityfutile, futility, in vain, pointlessness, vain
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- foolishnessfoolishness, silliness, foolish, stupid, folly
- petty behaviorsspite, malice, meanness, nastiness, bitterness
- nitpickingnitpicking, hairsplitter, splitting hairs, quibbling, cavil
trivialityimportance
State of mattering
significance · consequence · momentousness · import · weightiness
trivialitysubstance
Physical material with mass
depth · profundity · meaningfulness · richness · complexity