Associations to the word «Platitude»

Wiktionary

PLATITUDE, noun. An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a cliché.
PLATITUDE, noun. Unoriginality; triteness.
PLATITUDE, noun. A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.

Dictionary definition

PLATITUDE, noun. A trite or obvious remark.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca