banality

== English == === Etymology === From French banalité, from banal, equivalent to banal +‎ -ity. === Pronunciation === enPR: bənăl'ĭti, IPA(key): /bəˈnælɪti/ Rhymes: -ælɪti enPR: bānăl'ĭti, IPA(key): /beɪˈnælɪti/ Rhymes: -ælɪti === Noun === banality (countable and uncountable, plural banalities) (uncountable) The quality of being banal. Synonym: (partial) bathos (countable) Something which is banal. (rare, historical) A feudal right or obligation, especially the obligation for a peasant to grind grain at the lord's mill, or the profits accruing from such rights. ==== Related terms ==== banal ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “banality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “banality”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.