Banality

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Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech. The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. - J. Morley.

Noun

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banality - a trite or obvious remark Synonyms: cliche, commonplace, platitude, bromide

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