'Banality' definitions:
Definition of 'banality'
(from WordNet)
noun
Definition of 'Banality'
From: GCIDE
- Banality \Ba*nal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Banalities. [F. banalit['e]. 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. --J. Morley. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'banality'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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