Trifling vs Triflingness - What's the difference?
trifling | triflingness |
trivial, or of little importance
* 2005 , .
idle or frivolous
The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
* George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman
As nouns the difference between trifling and triflingness
is that trifling is the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour while triflingness is the quality of being trifling.As an adjective trifling
is trivial, or of little importance.trifling
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- it doesn't take him long to make any of them, and he sells them for some trifling sum of money.
Synonyms
* trivial * inconsequential * petty * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.