Placative vs Platitude - What's the difference?

As an adjective placative

is that placates; pacifying.

an often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a cliché.

(en adjective)

That placates; pacifying.

* 1914 , , Penrod , ch. 21:

Penrod's answer, like the look he lifted to the impressive stranger, was meek and placative .

*1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 64:

*:Temple entered the dining-room from the kitchen, her face fixed in a cringing, placative expression [...].

* placatory

* placatively

(en noun)

An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a .

* 1918 — , ch XI

Beauty, I suppose, opens the heart, extends the consciousness. It is a platitude , of course.

Unoriginality; triteness.

*'>citation

A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.

* (English Citations of "platitude")

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