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Definisjon av platitude

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WordNet WordNet by Princeton University

Noun
platitude - a trite or obvious remark
cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide
remark, comment, input explicit notice; "it passed without remark"
truism an obvious truth
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Substantiv
platitude - An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a cliché.
platitude - Unoriginality; triteness.
platitude - A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.

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  • A platitude is a trite, meaningless, biased, or prosaic statement that is presented as if it were significant and original. The word derives from plat, the French word for "flat. " Whether any given statement is considered to have meaning is highly subjective, so platitude is often—but not always—used as a pejorative term to describe seemingly profound statements that a certain person views as unoriginal or shallow.

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  • platitude
    A saying that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost.

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