nugation

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noun

The act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential.)

OriginLatin nugatio →
Scrabble 9
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Meanings

nounnugation (countable and uncountable, plural nugations)

plural nugations

  1. countableobsoleterareuncountableThe act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential.)

    As for the received opinion, that putrefaction is caused, either by cold, or peregrine and preternatural heat, it is but nugation: for cold in things inanimate, is the greatest enemy that is to putrefaction […]

    1826, Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, page 13

Origin

  1. Latinnugatio“chatter”
  2. Englishnugation

From Latin nugatio (“chatter”).

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APA

nugation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nugation

MLA

“nugation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nugation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nugation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nugation.

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