banality
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
banality
- (uncountable) The quality of being banal.
- Synonyms: bathos
- 1997, Edward S. Herman, Triumph of the Market: Essays on Economics, Politics, and the Media, Black Rose Books Ltd. (ISBN 9781551640631), page 97:
- The concept of the banality of evil came into prominence following the publication of Hannah Arendt's 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, which was based on the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem.
- (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.
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