Hypertext Webster Gateway: "banality"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Banality \Ba*nal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Banalities}. [F. banalit['e].
See {Banal}.]
Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the
commonplace, in speech.
The highest things were thus brought down to the
banalities of discourse. --J. Morley.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
banality
n : a trite or obvious remark [syn: {platitude}, {cliche}, {commonplace},
{bromide}]
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