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Plentitude vs Platitude - What's the difference?

plentitude | platitude |

As nouns the difference between plentitude and platitude

is that plentitude is abundance, fullness, completeness; an instance of one of these while platitude is old spelling of.

plentitude

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • abundance, fullness, completeness; an instance of one of these.
    • Of quotations in the OED there are indeed a plentitude .

    Synonyms

    * plenitude

    References

    * OED 2006

    platitude

    English

    Noun

    (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.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "platitude")

    Synonyms

    * * See also