PLATITUDE

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace.