banality
/bəˈnalɪti
/noun (plural banalities) [mass noun]
The fact or condition of being banal; unoriginality: there is an essential banality to the story he tells [count noun]: the banalities of contemporary celebrity culture...
- Elements such as this can potentially add much character to a genre that's typically overwrought with banality.
- The wordless theatre of everyday life occasionally threatens to subside into banality.
- Still, Channel 5's current approach to the news is less noticeable for ideological taint than sheer banality.
Synonyms
triteness, platitudinousness, vapidity, pedestrianism, conventionality, predictability, staleness, unimaginativeness, lack of originality, lack of inspiration, prosaicness, dullness, ordinariness
informal corniness
platitude, cliché, truism, banal phrase, trite phrase, hackneyed phrase, overworked phrase, stock phrase, commonplace, old chestnut, bromide
