Synonyms of banality

banality

noun

bə-ˈna-lə-tē 

as in cliché

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

• cliché
• bromide
• commonplace
• platitude
• truism
• trope
• chestnut
• saying
• proverb
• shibboleth
• homily
• groaner
• generalization
• saw
• stereotype
• inanity
• party line
• conventional wisdom
• routine
• simplification
• generality
• adage
• old wives' tale

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• profundity

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of banality

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

Commentary and opinions In his latest column, Gustavo Arellano breaks down the banality of evil in the Border Patrol’s secret anti-immigrant slur. — Los Angeles Times, 31 July 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

But together, the whole is blander than the sum of its parts—a subtle banality humans can often implicitly sense. — Sam MacDonald, Scientific American, 29 June 2026