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Synonyms of banality in English:

banality


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noun

1‘the banality of most sitcoms’

SYNONYMS
triteness, platitudinousness, vapidity, pedestrianism, conventionality, predictability, staleness, unimaginativeness, lack of originality, lack of inspiration, prosaicness, dullness, ordinariness
informal corniness
ANTONYMS

originality

2‘they exchanged banalities for a couple of minutes’

SYNONYMS
platitude, cliché, truism, banal phrase, trite phrase, hackneyed phrase, overworked phrase, stock phrase, commonplace, old chestnut, bromide
ANTONYMS

epigram, witticism