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1. Insignificant or non-essential matters; trifles: Too often there are politicians who explain matters that consist more of trivia than of clarifying statements.
2. In the Middle Ages, there were three roads leading to learning and forming the lower division to the liberal arts: In school, James learned that trivium, or trivia, was used to describe the grammar, the rhetoric, and the logic of the Latin language.
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2. In the Middle Ages, there were three roads leading to learning and forming the lower division to the liberal arts: In school, James learned that trivium, or trivia, was used to describe the grammar, the rhetoric, and the logic of the Latin language.
The use of the plural form of trivia as a singular noun is usually considered to be acceptable.