Antonyms for banalityba·nal·i·ty

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1. platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromidenoun

   a trite or obvious remark

   Synonyms:
   commonplace, bromide, cliche, platitude

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1. banalitynoun

   Synonyms:
   platitude, commonplace

How to use banality in a sentence?

1. Perry Brass:

   Realize that the banality around us that passes as “hipness” or “mass culture” is as satisfying as “mass food”—only it comes in much more unappetizing portions.

2. Susan Sontag:

   We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

3. Erik Pevernagie:

   When life only consists of infantile first world problems and day-by-day futilities, our mind is eager for other values, which should fill the unbearable emptiness. If we are suffocating under the pressure of the banality of evil and losing out to the slowly infiltrating cancerous cells of indifference, resilience and redirection is required. ("The world was somewhere else" )

4. Eugène Ionesco:

   Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichés.

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