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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Banality

/bənăl'ĭti/ · Ba·nal·i·ty · IPA /bəˈnælɪti/
01 n. Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.
pl. Banalities
  1. 1.
    Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.
    “The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse.” — J. Morley.