banalizev.
/bəˈnɑːlʌɪz/ transitive. To render banal; to make commonplace.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored with [verb (transitive)] > make trite or banal
hackney1598
commonplace1847
platitudinize1917
pedestrianize1945
banalize1949
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > render (a thing) habitual > make commonplace
hackney1598
vulgarize1709
commonplace1847
pedestrianize1945
banalize1949
1949 A. Koestler Insight & Outlook xxviii. 380 But the great majority found a solution..in conventionalizing and banalizing Death itself.
1958 L. Forster in Aspects of Transl. 25 The girl has lost her heart, and this banal idea banalizes what follows.
1964 Sci. Amer. May 140 The great and good traditional virtues have been eroded: love, generosity, self-denial, truthfulness, honesty, loyalty, friendship, kindness to children. That many of these traits have been banalized by advertising seems incidental.
1985 N.Y. Times 8 Nov. c1/4 Many of the images that resulted are now classics in their kind. Endlessly travestied and banalized, they long ago lost their initial freshness.
Derivatives
banaliˈzation n.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usualness > that which is commonplace
staleness1617
hack1710
commonplace1802
quotidian1902
banalization1968
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usualness > making
banalization1968
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull thing or activity > trite or banal thing or activity
hack1710
banality1861
quotidian1902
cliché1934
banalization1968
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > state or quality of being trite or banal > action of making
banalization1968
1968 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 21 Sept. 77/1 It is possible that the affluence..of our society has allowed a Deweyian commitment to survive its..banalization at the hands of professional educators.
1985 C. Rycroft Psychoanal. & Beyond v. 83 The kind of background information which would enable one to decide whether the slips he quotes are interferences by repressed thoughts or merely banalisations.
baˈnalized adj.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > trite or banal > made trite or banal
banalized1964
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > commonplace > rendering commonplace > rendered commonplace
hackneyed1747
banalized1964
1964 S. Bellow Herzog 76 Reaching at last the point of denying the humanity of the industrialized, ‘banalized’ masses.
baˈnalizing adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > commonplace > rendering commonplace
banalizing1973
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > trite or banal > making trite or banal
banalizing1973
1973 D. Matias & P. Willemen tr. M. Cegarra in Screen Spring 143 Criticism..of simplified, simplifying and banalizing ‘examples’.
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