мелкоте́мье

rare #41000

nounneuterinanimateuncountable

1.
preoccupation with trivial themes, triviality of subject matter, dwelling on triflesliterature
Критики упрека́ли молодых писа́телей в мелкоте́мье.
Critics reproached the young writers for their preoccupation with trivial themes.
Critical term, chiefly of literature, film and journalism; always disapproving.
2.
(rare) concentration on narrow topics, narrow specialization, prevalence of highly specialized researchacademia
Диссерта́ции страда́ют мелкоте́мьем.
The dissertations suffer from a concentration on overly narrow topics.
Said of scholarship that avoids broad questions.

Examples

В статье говорится о мелкотемье современного кино.
The article discusses the narrow subject matter of contemporary cinema.
Критики упрекали молодых писателей в мелкотемье.
Critics accused the young writers of focusing on narrow subjects.
Он устал от мелкотемья в разговорах с коллегами.
He was tired of the trivial small talk in conversations with his colleagues.

This noun exists in singular form only.

мелкота́smallness
nounfeminine
мелкоте́мьеpreoccupation with trivial themes; concentration on narrow topics
nounneuter
мелкотра́вчатыйpetty; small-patterned
adjective