Dictionary

banalisation en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The action of making something banal; trivialization.
   • The banalisation of the nation entailed the banalisation of the rock music itself, which was further accentuated with additions of songs performed by pop musicians from the pre-rock era as well as children's pop songs. 2015, Ewa Mazierska, Georgina Gregory, Relocating Popular Music, page 99:
   • Forcing smaller suppliers out of the category adds to the banalisation of retailing, resulting in the multiple retailers and major suppliers managing a category for their own purposes... 2008, S.C. Bhatia, Retail Management, page 242:
   • 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. 1983, Christine Brooke-Rose, A Rhetoric of the Unreal, page 9:

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Translations (4)

da banalisering (the action of making something banal) · pl banalizacja (the action of making something banal) · pt banalização (the action of making something banal) · sv banalisering (the action of making something banal)