Banality

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Banality \Ba*nal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Banalities}. [F. banalit['e].
     See {Banal}.]
     Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the
     commonplace, in speech.
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           The highest things were thus brought down to the
           banalities of discourse.                 --J. Morley.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  banality
       n : a trite or obvious remark [syn: {platitude}, {cliche}, {commonplace},
            {bromide}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "banality":
     banalness, bromide, chestnut, cliche, commonness, commonplace,
     commonplace expression, commonplaceness, corn, corniness,
     familiar tune, familiarness, fustiness, hackneyed saying,
     hackneyedness, lieu commun, locus communis, mustiness, old joke,
     old saw, old song, old story, platitude, platitudinousness,
     prosaicism, prosaism, prose, reiteration, retold story,
     rubber stamp, shibboleth, squareness, staleness,
     stereotyped saying, tag, trite saying, triteness, triticism,
     truism, twice-told tale, unoriginality