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noun - a trite or obvious remark
A trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant.
Lack of originality; triteness.
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| It's a dull or trite remark, or a meaningless cliche |
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| a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful. |
| a trite or obvious remark |
| A trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant. See Synonyms at clich. |
| Lack of originality triteness. |
| a remark or statement that may be true but is boring and has no meaning because it has been said so many times before: |
| a statement that has been repeated so often that it is meaningless: |
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A platitude is a trite, meaningless, or prosaic statement, often used as a thought-terminating cliché, aimed at quelling social, emotional, or cognitive unease.Platitudes have been criticized as giving a false impression of wisdom, making it easy to accept falsehoods:* A platitude is even worse than a cliché. Its a sanctimonious cliché, a statement that is not only old and overused but often moralistic and imperious. ... [P]latitudes have an aphoristic quality, they seem like timeless moral lessons. They therefore shape our view of the world, and can lull us into accepting things that are actually false and foolish. * * Platitudes often take the form of tautologies, e.g., "it is what it is", making them appear vacuously true. But the phrase is used to mean "there is no way of changing it", which is no longer a tautology: "Structuring the sentiment as a tautology allows it to appear inescapable."At the same time, some phrases that have become platitudes may provide useful moral guidance, s |