Noun
Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality. Anton Chekhov
If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth. Emil Cioran
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics. Asger Jorn
My life is short. I can't listen to banality. V. S. Naipaul
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. Christopher Lasch
She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage. Gustave Flaubert