Definition of Platetude

Definition of Platetude

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.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular
literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of
a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in
artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a
departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose
of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the
sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram.

- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

an unoriginal or hackneyed phrase; a cliché
unoriginality; triteness

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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