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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

无足轻重

Pronunciation / Transliteration: wú zú qīng zhòng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Inconsequentiality/ɪnˌkɒn.sɪ.kwenˌtʃiˈæl.ə.ti/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45200 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"我们要学会忽略这些无足轻重的小事。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The quality or state of being insignificant, trivial, or lacking importance.

    "She was struck by the utter inconsequentiality of their daily arguments."
  2. 2

    Lack of logical consequence or relevance; not following as a logical result.

    "The argument suffered from a frustrating inconsequentiality that rendered its conclusion meaningless."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the adjective inconsequential, combining the Latin prefix in- (meaning 'not') with consequentia (meaning 'consequence' or 'importance'), rooted in Latin consequi ('to follow closely'). The noun form emerged in the 19th century to denote the abstract quality of lacking significance, importance, or logical sequence.

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