The Collaborative International Dictionary
Banality \Ba*nal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Banalities. [F. banalit['e]. See Banal.] Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.
The highest things were thus brought down to the
banalities of discourse.
--J. Morley.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of banality English)
Usage examples of "banalities".
Never a man to waste words on banalities, the Lord of the Minwanabi turned a flat gaze upon his adviser.
By now familiar with the duties of a second adviser, he would accompany the guild messenger to a distant chamber and see him occupied with banalities until the heat passed, and the man could politely be dismissed.
Yet the self-conscious banalities he put in for openers twanged with unnecessary touches that didn't quite match the outgoing Finn Mackey personality.
Don't think about this album in terms of banalities, or in terms of a trivial rehashing of your life experiences.