Associations to the word «Platitude»
Noun
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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
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.