Platitude vs Cliche - What's the difference?
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An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a .
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Unoriginality; triteness.
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A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.
Something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite saying; a platitude.
(printing) A stereotype (printing plate).
Cliche is a synonym of platitude.
As nouns the difference between platitude and cliche
is that platitude is an often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a cliché while cliché is something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite saying; a platitude.platitude
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(en noun)- Beauty, I suppose, opens the heart, extends the consciousness. It is a platitude , of course.
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* clicheNoun
(wikipedia cliché) (en noun)- The villain kidnapping the love interest in a film is a bit of a cliché .