banalità — meaning in English

English meaning

• bagatelle noun A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
• banality noun The quality of being dull, unoriginal, and overly familiar.
• platitude noun An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.
• truism noun A self-evident or obvious truth.

Senses

banalità is used for these senses in English:

• bagatelle A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
• platitude (uncountable) Unoriginality; triteness.
• truism A banality or cliché.

bagatelle — full definition

1. noun A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
2. noun A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.
3. noun A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
4. noun Any of several smaller wooden tabletop games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins.

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