Trivial vs Nugation - What's the difference?
trivial | nugation |
Ignorable; of little significance or value.
* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
Commonplace, ordinary.
* De Quincey
Concerned with or involving trivia.
(biology) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
(mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
(mathematics) Self-evident.
Pertaining to the trivium.
(philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
(obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
(rare, obsolete) The act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential.)
* 1826 , Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon , p13
As nouns the difference between trivial and nugation
is that trivial is (obsolete) any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium while nugation is (rare|obsolete) the act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential).As an adjective trivial
is ignorable; of little significance or value.trivial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "All which details, I have no doubt, Jones , who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial , twaddling, and ultra-sentimental."
- As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial , and incapable of labour.
Synonyms
* (of little significance) ignorable, negligible, triflingAntonyms
* nontrivial * important * significant * radical * fundamentalDerived terms
* triviaNoun
(en noun)- (Skelton)
- (Wood)
nugation
English
Noun
(en noun)- As for the received opinion, that putrefaction is caused, either by cold, or peregrine and preternatural heat, it is but nugation : for cold in things inanimate, is the greatest enemy that is to putrefaction ...