banalisation

plural banalisations · alternative banalization

1. countableuncountableThe action of making something banal; trivialization.

   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

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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.

   1983, Christine Brooke-Rose, A Rhetoric of the Unreal, page 9

   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