Banalisation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The action of making something banal; trivialization. countable, uncountable

    "This displacement also partly explains the banalisation of the scientific 'marvellous': since the excitement of the moon landing, nobody cares much about Russians circling the earth for six months or a Pioneer photographing Saturn."

Synonyms

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banality

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"This displacement also partly explains the banalisation of the scientific 'marvellous': since the excitement of the moon landing, nobody cares much about Russians circling the earth for six months or a Pioneer photographing Saturn."

Etymology

From French banalisation, from Middle French; as if banalise + -ation.

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