Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Banality \Ba*nal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Banalities}. [F. banalit['e].
   See {Banal}.]
   Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the
   commonplace, in speech.

         The highest things were thus brought down to the
         banalities of discourse.                 --J. Morley.