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platitudes

noun

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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