'insignificance' is a valid word in English and can be used in written language.
It is typically used to describe the lack of importance or vitality in something. For example, "The insignificance of the task made it not worth the effort."
But these gloomy thoughts soon pale into insignificance after just one morning surgery at my practice.
But that sum pales into insignificance besides the value of the Qatari royal family's other holdings in London.
Laura Gardiner, co-author of the foundation's report on the costs, may be forgiven the slight exaggeration when she says that these figures "pale into insignificance" compared to the billions being proposed by all three main political parties to raise NHS spending.
Framed this way, the amounts currently contemplated shrink into insignificance".
The rest paled into insignificance compared with the off-field activities of Cantona, who briefly went berserk four minutes after half-time.
Made painfully aware of his insignificance in her eyes next to his elder brother, he only recovered a sense of self-esteem while at Oxford.
The need to raise outside capital to finance growth can slowly dilute the family's stake to insignificance.
He should have been franker in condemning Robert Mugabe for his ruination of Zimbabwe.But such shortcomings and South Africa's failings since his retirement from active politics pale into insignificance when set against the magnitude of his overall achievement.
The project, approved by the Chinese cabinet in November 2002, is expected to cost some $50 billion, more than twice as much as the Three Gorges.Even China's huge scheme, however, pales into insignificance compared with what India is planning.
Such institutional and market failures catch the attention of green-growth policymakers because they often explain why growth has harmed the environment.The subsidy blightBut these problems pale into insignificance compared with the impact of subsidies.
That would make the vast expense of unification in Germany pale into insignificance.
