[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being trifling; triviality, pettiness.
1581. Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 71. The triflingnes of this discourse, is much too much enlarged.
1752. Carte, Hist. Eng., III. 507. Ross and his colleagues shewed the triflingness of this excuse.
1821. J. Smith’s Sel. Disc., Pref. 10. A profitable companion; nothing of vanity and triflingness in him.
1843. Raleigh Register, 2 May, 3/4. Fretting or repining is as far from being the fruits of, or being consonant with the dictates of our Holy Religion as lightness and triflingness.
1912. 19th Cent., Nov., 1023. The triflingness of free negro agricultural labour.
