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Trivium vs Triviality - What's the difference?

trivium | triviality |

As nouns the difference between trivium and triviality

is that trivium is (in medieval universities ) the lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric while triviality is the quality of being trivial or unimportant.

trivium

English

Noun

(trivia)
  • (in medieval universities ) The lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric.
  • (zoology) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.

    • Coordinate terms

    * quadrivium

    Derived terms

    * trivia * trivial English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    triviality

    English

    Noun

    (trivialities)
  • The quality of being trivial or unimportant.
  • Something which is trivial or unimportant.
  • * 1908:
    • I propose to devote the remainder of mine to it, and can only regret the wasted years that lie behind me, squandered in trivialities .