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trivialisms

trivialisms is the plural of trivialism.

Meaning of trivialism

Noun

trivialism (countable and uncountable, plural trivialisms)

  1. The theory that every proposition and its negation is true.
    • If it is possible for trivialism to be true, it may be false as well as true that all humans are mammals […]2004, Graham Priest, J. C. Beall, Bradley Armour-Garb, The Law of Non-contradiction: New Philosophical Essays, page 252
  2. A trivial matter or method; a triviality.
    • When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […]?1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page)

Questions about trivialisms

What is trivialisms the plural of?
Trivialisms is the plural of trivialism.

Words near trivialisms in the dictionary

  1. trivialiser
  2. trivialisers
  3. trivialises
  4. trivialising
  5. trivialism
  6. trivialisms
  7. trivialist
  8. trivialistic
  9. trivialists
  10. trivialities
  11. triviality

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