banality n : a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche, commonplace, bromide]

English

Noun

1. The quality of being banal.
2. Something which is banal.

Translations

"Banality" refers to the following:

• another term for the concept of predictability in physics

• in the manorial system, a type of feudal tax paid to use the lord's mills, ovens and presses

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