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banality
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun banality has 1 sense
- banality(n = noun.communication) bromide, cliche, commonplace, platitude - a trite or obvious remark; Array is a kind of comment, input, remark, truism
Derived form adjective banal1
CIDE DICTIONARY
banality, n. [F. banalité. See Banal.].
Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech. [1913 Webster]
"The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse."
[1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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
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