Hypertext Webster Gateway: "platitude"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Platitude \Plat"i*tude\, n. [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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
platitude
n : a trite or obvious remark [syn: {cliche}, {banality}, {commonplace},
{bromide}]
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