banality
NounUS[buh-nal-ih-tee]/bəˈnælɪti/4 syllables
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ba·nal′i·ty (…), noun; pl. Banalities (…).
Origin: F. banalité. See Banal.
Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.
The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse.— John Morley
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54