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/ˈplatɪˌtjuːd/ · noun
(countable) An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse..
Beauty, I suppose, opens the heart, extends the consciousness. It is a platitude, of course.
Semiramis was the first woman to invent eunuchs and women have had sympathy for them ever since; […] and women can tell them what they can't tell other men. And Ivor, suddenly cheered by laughing at his absurd platitudes, and finding himself by the door, was going from the room.
For most of the past three decades, the natural world was treated almost as an afterthought by world leaders. If discussed at all, it was with platitudes about the need to save polar bears and tigers.
The synthesis which he helped to effect was so successful that this aspect of his work escaped notice in the last century: all that Britomart stands for was platitude to our fathers. It is platitude no longer.
After explaining myself sufficiently, I now offer my own platitude: I believe that the institution of the cabaret has the right to exist only so long as it bears the character of dilettantism and improvisation.
Indeed, in the ownership scenario the idealization is supported in a much thinner manner: we start with a platitude that characterizes individuals as coowners (that they are de facto seen as either property holders themselves or otherwise as […]
The former figures the typical prairie landscape-poet who stops at the correction line (which itself literally denies the platitude of flatness) to notice the ever-present wind.
With the photograph, we enter into flat death. One day, leaving one of my classes, someone said to me with disdain, "You talk about death very flatly." — As if the horror of Death were not precisely its platitude!
Use platitude when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Platitude means (countable) An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse..
Common synonyms include cliché, byword, saying, adage.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Beauty, I suppose, opens the heart, extends the consciousness. It is a platitude, of course.
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