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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

banalidade

Pronunciation / Transliteration: banalidade

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Unremarkableness/ˌʌn.rɪˈmɑːrk.əb.əl.nəs/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A banalidade do seu discurso desapontou a plateia."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The quality or state of being unremarkable; lack of distinction, prominence, or striking characteristics.

    "The town's quiet unremarkableness made it an ideal haven for writers seeking solitude."
  2. 2

    The condition of being entirely ordinary or commonplace.

    "He deliberately cultivated an air of unremarkableness to blend easily into the crowd."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the prefix un- (Old English on-, un-, meaning not or opposite of) combined with remarkable (from Old French remarquer, formed from re- + marquier, to mark), and suffixed with -ness (Old English -nes, denoting a state or condition). The formation emerged in the late 19th century as a standard morphological derivation to denote the quality of lacking noticeable or striking features.

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