All banality synonyms

noun banality

• platitude — a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
• plate — the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.
• trivia — (in Roman religion) Hecate: so called because she was the goddess of the crossroads.
• truism — a self-evident, obvious truth.
• triviality — something trivial; a trivial matter, affair, remark, etc.: cocktail conversation marked by trivialities.
• adage — An adage is something which people often say and which expresses a general truth about some aspect of life.
• buzzword — A buzzword is a word or expression that has become fashionable in a particular field and is being used a lot by the media.
• saw — a sententious saying; maxim; proverb: He could muster an old saw for every occasion.
• chestnut — A chestnut or chestnut tree is a tall tree with broad leaves.
• corn — Corn is used to refer to crops such as wheat and barley. It can also be used to refer to the seeds from these plants.
• hokum — out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
• boiler — A boiler is a device which burns gas, oil, electricity, or coal in order to provide hot water, especially for the central heating in a building.
• triteness — lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale: the trite phrases in his letter.
• predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
• ordinariness — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
• dullness — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• facile — moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
• cliche — A cliché is an idea or phrase which has been used so much that it is no longer interesting or effective or no longer has much meaning.
• dullsville — something boring or dull: That movie was strictly dullsville.
• old chestnut — old saying, cliché
• prosaicism — prosaic character or style.
• prosaism — prosaic character or style.