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Definition of Banality
1. Noun. A trite or obvious remark.
Generic synonyms: Comment, Input, Remark, Truism
Derivative terms: Banal, Commonplace, Platitudinous
Definition of Banality
1. n. Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.
Definition of Banality
1. Noun. The quality of being banal. ¹
2. Noun. Something which is banal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Banality
1. something banal [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banality
Literary usage of Banality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Seigniorial System in Canada: A Study in French Colonial Policy by William Bennett Munro (1907)
"The other form of banal right which was claimed by the Canadian seignior, — the
droit de four banal, or right of oven banality,—though exacted in very few ..."
2. First Lessons in Story-writing by Barry Pain (1907)
"CHAPTER II STYLE AND banality AN ignorant schoolmaster taught me in my boyhood,
in the course of some absurd lessons on English composition, ..."
3. Address at the Bar of the Legislative Assembly of Canada: Delivered on the by Christopher Dunkin (1853)
"For the setting of his value on the banality rights of the Seignior over each lot,
... To establish the price of redemption of the right of banality, ..."
4. The Old Regime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville (1856)
"banality.—There are no banal rights in the provinces of Ar- tois, ... Independently
of the banality of mills and ovens, there are many others: 1st. ..."
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