banality Definition

banal
adj

1. Boring or trivial; not saying, doing or providing, etc anything interesting or original.

Example: a banal speech
Thesaurus: trite, stale, old, tired, hackneyed, clichéd, dull, jejune, insipid, pedestrian, platitudinous, stock, vapid, threadbare; Antonym: original, creative, fresh.

Derivative: banality

Something which is boring, trivial, uninteresting or unoriginal.
Thesaurus: cliché, platitude, bromide, old saw, truism.

The state of being boring, trivial, etc.

Derivative: banally
adverb

Etymology: 18c: French, originally applied to a lord's mill, bakehouse, etc which local people were required to use, from which developed the sense ‘common to all', and later ‘commonplace'.