(BrE also trivialise) verb
[VN] (usually disapproving) to make sth seem less important, serious, difficult, etc. than it really is:
It is important not to trivialize children's worries. * The magazine has been accused of trivializing serious issues.
trivialization, trivialisation noun [U]
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