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The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.

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  1. n. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.
  2. n. A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace.
  3. n. a trite or obvious remark
  4. 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.
  5. n:100 n. a trite or obvious remark