banality

noun

1 the banality of most sitcoms:

triteness, platitudinousness, vapidity, pedestrianism, conventionality, predictability, staleness, unimaginativeness, lack of originality, lack of inspiration, prosaicness, dullness, ordinariness;

informal corniness.

▷antonyms originality.

2 they exchanged banalities for a couple of minutes:

platitude, cliché, truism, banal phrase, trite phrase, hackneyed phrase, overworked phrase, stock phrase, commonplace, old chestnut, bromide.

▷antonyms epigram, witticism.