BANALITY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | bu'nalitee
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| | Definition: | | [n] a trite or obvious remark |
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| | Synonyms: | | bromide, cliche, commonplace, platitude |
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| | See Also: | | comment, remark, truism | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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