Definition of Banality

Banality

Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.

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Commonplace, Hackneyed, In, Or, Something, Speech, The, Trivial

Banality Quotations

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
Christopher Lasch

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
Douglas Sirk

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.
Alan Dean Foster

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
Nathalie Sarraute

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Banality Translations

banality in Swedish is banalitet

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