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noun, plural ba·nal·i·ties.
1.
the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
2.
an instance of this: We sat around the dinner table exchanging banalities.
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banality
1861, triteness, from Fr. banalité "banality, commonplace," from banal (see banal).
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