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банальность — meaning in English

banalnost

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English meaning

  • banality noun The quality of being dull, unoriginal, and overly familiar.
  • commonplace adjective Ordinary; lacking anything unusual or noteworthy.
  • platitude noun An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.
  • quotidian adj Happening every day; daily.
  • triviality noun The quality of being trivial or unimportant.
  • truism noun A self-evident or obvious truth.

Senses

банальность is used for these senses in English:

  • commonplace Something that is ordinary; something commonly done or occurring.
  • platitude (uncountable) Unoriginality; triteness.
  • quotidian (medicine, now, _, rare, historical) A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria. [from 14th c.]
  • quotidian (Anglicanism, historical) A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy. [from 16th c.]
  • quotidian (usually with definite article) Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class. [from 20th c.]
  • triviality The quality of being trivial or unimportant.
  • truism A banality or cliché.

commonplace — full definition

  1. adjective Ordinary; lacking anything unusual or noteworthy.
  2. noun A remark or idea that has become dull and predictable from overuse; a cliché.

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