[ad. F. banalité, f. banal: see prec. and -ALITY.]
1. Anything trite or trivial; a commonplace.
1861. Sala, Tw. round Clock, 244. That he is getting old, or that he looks remarkably young, or some equally relevant banalities.
1871. Browning, Balaust., 1514. The decent praise, the due regret, And each banality prescribed of old.
2. Commonplace character, triteness, triviality.
1878. Dowden, Stud. Lit., 394. The banality of these poetic sorrows and aspirations.
1881. Saintsbury, in Academy, 5 Feb., 92/3. Bewitched by the absence of banality in his work.
