PLATITUDE

platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide

(noun) a trite or obvious remark

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

platitude (plural platitudes)

An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a cliché.

Unoriginality; triteness.

A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.

Synonyms

• cliché

• See also saying

Source: Wiktionary

Plat"i*tude, n. Etym: [F., from plat flat. See Plate.]

1. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language. To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude. Motley.

2. A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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