Platitude vs Mediocre - What's the difference?

As a noun platitude

is old spelling of.

mediocre (ordinary: not extraordinary; not special, exceptional, or great; of medium quality).

(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")

* * See also

* mediocer (obsolete) * (dated)

(en adjective)

Ordinary: not extraordinary; not special, exceptional, or great; of medium quality;

I'm pretty good at tennis but only mediocre at racquetball.

* middling * See also

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