The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Banality \Ba*nal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Banalities. [F. banalit['e].
   See Banal.]
   Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the
   commonplace, in speech.
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         The highest things were thus brought down to the
         banalities of discourse.                 --J. Morley.
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