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Banality meaning

  1. The quality of being banal.
  2. Something which is banal.
  3. A feudal right or obligation, especially the obligation for a peasant to grind grain at the lord's mill, or the profits accruing from such rights.

Synonyms of Banality

platitude cliche commonplace bromide remark comment truism

Related words

Other words often associated with Banality or its synonyms:

mention observe notice statement note truth gossip timeworn state halide humdrum shopworn

Using Banality

  • The main meaning on this page is: The quality of being banal. | Something which is banal. | A feudal right or obligation, especially the obligation for a peasant to grind grain at the lord's mill, or the profits accruing from such rights.
  • Useful related words include: platitude, cliche, commonplace, bromide.
  • In the example corpus, banality often appears in combinations such as: the banality, banality of, of banality.

Context around Banality

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

prize 1× own 1× platitude 1× annual 1×

Often after:

maybe 1×

Sentence patterns with Banality

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

called the banality of evil 3× a the banality and vacuity 1× about the banality of living 1× belies the banality 1× it the banality maybe felt 1× of platitude banality and cliché 1× of the banality of evil 1× oscars prize banality the best 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

i don t 1× i know there 1× i think he 1× in his view 1× several years ago 1× the first carries 1×

Common sentence endings:

banality and cliché 1× banality of evil 1× evil than varon 1× felt somehow obscene 1× hear another voice 1× huge cult following 1×

Words around Banality

Just before it in the word index:

banalities 5 banali 2 banal 52 banaian 2 banai 2 banagher 2

Just after it in the word index:

banana 604 bananal 2 bananaman 2 bananarama 9 bananas 358 banani 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aav 21 abdicating 21 abductor 21 abet 21 abh 21 abhorred 21

Corpus analysis for Banality

  • In this selection, "banality" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, prize, own, platitude and maybe stand out and add context to how "banality" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include called the banality of evil and a the banality and vacuity. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "banality" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with banality

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

The glitter belies the banality. (5 words)

They have, in a sense, transcended their own banality. (9 words)

The first carries an extraordinary power in its creeping terror of the banality of evil. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

So often, the Oscars prize banality: the best picture is a movie Obama can safely endorse and which generates pleasant water-cooler chatter—a movie designed not to chafe or stir controversy, all the things good art is supposed to do. (41 words)

I know there's already two dozen viable Ryder Cup candidates for the Americans, but bearing in mind the annual banality of the uniforms, feel like Duf's hat game is worth at least two points for Team USA this fall. (41 words)

And what she called “the banality of evil” was the inability to hear another voice, the inability to have a dialogue either with oneself or the imagination to have a dialogue with the world, the moral world. (37 words)

Example sentences (16)

So often, the Oscars prize banality: the best picture is a movie Obama can safely endorse and which generates pleasant water-cooler chatter—a movie designed not to chafe or stir controversy, all the things good art is supposed to do.

They have, in a sense, transcended their own banality.

Several years ago, I began to photographically document vestiges of racism, oppression and segregation in America’s built and natural environments — lingering traces that were hidden in plain sight behind a veil of banality.

The first carries an extraordinary power in its creeping terror of the banality of evil.

Their mockumentary about the banality of living in rural England, which they write and star in as lovable knuckleheads Kerry and Kurtan, has a huge cult following.

What underlies the weasel rhetorical manifesto promises and pledges, an ever flowing gushing literary of platitude, banality and cliché.

The glitter belies the banality.

Tuello handed her a cup of coffee, just one human in a free, caffeine-permitting country to another, and the ordinariness of it—the banality, maybe—felt somehow obscene.

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And what she called “the banality of evil” was the inability to hear another voice, the inability to have a dialogue either with oneself or the imagination to have a dialogue with the world, the moral world.

I don’t think that I’ve ever read any author of poetry or prose who, in his or her characterizations, exemplifies so well what Hannah Arendt famously called “the banality of evil” than Varon.

I know there's already two dozen viable Ryder Cup candidates for the Americans, but bearing in mind the annual banality of the uniforms, feel like Duf's hat game is worth at least two points for Team USA this fall.

I think he sabotaged his career by blabbing to Wolff because: A) The banality and vacuity of the Trump kids and others enraged him.

What Arendt called the “banality of evil” was at root an inability to hear another voice.

However, he was deeply disappointed by the Bayreuth Festival of 1876, where the banality of the shows and baseness of the public repelled him.

In his view, the market (which implies the hunt for higher advertising revenue) not only imposes uniformity and banality, but also a form of invisible censorship.

These sketches parodied the banality of office life, from guessing the sexuality of the new guy to dealing with an ex-stripper temp named Tanya (McKinney).

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Common combinations with banality

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "banality" in a sentence?
An example: "So often, the Oscars prize banality: the best picture is a movie Obama can safely endorse and which generates pleasant water-cooler chatter—a movie designed not to chafe or stir controversy, all the things good art is supposed to do." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "banality" from authentic English texts.
What does "banality" mean?
Banality means: The quality of being banal.
What are synonyms of "banality"?
Common synonyms of "banality" include: platitude, cliche, commonplace, bromide, remark, comment, truism.
How many example sentences with "banality" are there?
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