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• (n.) Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.
Ba·nal'i·ty noun ; plural Banalities [ French banalité . 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. »