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banality noun [ bəˈnalɪti ]

• the fact or condition of being banal; unoriginality.
• "there is an essential banality to the story he tells"
Similar: triteness, platitudinousness, vapidity, pedestrianism, conventionality, predictability, staleness, unimaginativeness, lack of originality, lack of inspiration, prosaicness, dullness, ordinariness, corniness, platitude, cliché, truism, banal phrase, trite phrase, hackneyed phrase, overworked phrase, stock phrase, commonplace, old chestnut, bromide,
Opposite: originality, epigram, witticism,


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