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BANALITY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Pronunciation:  bu'nalitee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a trite or obvious remark
 
 Synonyms: bromide, cliche, commonplace, platitude
 
 See Also: comment, remark, truism

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 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.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 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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