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English Dictionary: banality by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banality
n
  1. a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Banality \Ba*nal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Banalities}. [F. banalit[82].
      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.
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