banality
staleness or lack of originality
Root
- banal / banality: commonplace, stale, or lacking freshness
Other words with the banal / banality root
- banal: commonplace, stale, or unoriginal
Banality is banal quality turned into a noun: the flatness of a thought that has gone stale.
The speech sank under the banality of phrases everyone had already heard.
Banality helps banal stick. Banal is the adjective; banality is the atmosphere it creates: nothing wrong exactly, but nothing alive either.