Synonyms of banalities

banalities

noun

plural of banality

as in clichés

an idea or expression that has been used by many people

another sitcom based on the banality of roommates with opposite personalities

Synonyms & Similar Words

• clichés
• platitudes
• commonplaces
• bromides
• truisms
• tropes
• sayings
• chestnuts
• proverbs
• shibboleths
• homilies
• inanities
• generalizations
• groaners
• stereotypes
• party lines
• routines
• generalities
• simplifications
• conventional wisdoms
• adages
• saws
• old wives' tales

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• profundities

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of banalities

And even though access to such banalities may sound brain-deadening, and at best dull, some of the most famous people in the world are now live-streamers. — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026

For all the women looking up at me to think of me not as a crying heap on a toilet whose baby never latched but as someone who found meaning in all of our daily banalities. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026

And yet for God’s sake, just look at the man—at his dispiriting attempts at humor, his weirdly off-putting outfits, his incessant posting of banalities and faux profundities and extreme-right disinformation on social media. — Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026

Here, Laura, a magazine writer in London, drifts through old friendships, failed romances, and the gothic banalities of family life. — Air Mail, 20 June 2026

One effect of this austerity and repression is to focus attention on Albee’s language, with its slippery banalities and barbs. — Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026

As far back as the Victorian era, exchanging a few banalities was part of a veritable social code—a way of signaling both politeness and boundaries. — Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2025

Written by Noah Oppenheim, Bigelow’s real-time thriller about the banalities and actualities of a fictional-in-premise-only nuclear attack on the United States is Netflix’s best horse in the race at the Oscars this year. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 19 Sep. 2025