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Unreferenced|date=February 2011about|the term Platitude|the Swedish progressive metal band Platitude|Platitude (band)Wiktionary|platitudeA platitude is a trite, meaningless, biased, or prosaic :wikt:statement|statement , often presented as if it were significant and original. The word derives from plat, the French language|French word for "flat." Whether any given statement is considered to have meaning is highly subjective, so platitude is often—but not always—used as a pejorative term to describe seemingly profound statements that a certain person views as unoriginal or shallow. Examples of statements which could be considered platitudes could be "The power of friendship", "Go with the flow", "Everything happens for a reason", "If it's meant to be, it's meant to be", and "We need to do what we can do."

See also


  • Bromide (language)

  • Buzzword

  • Saw (saying)

  • Snowclone

  • Superficiality

  • Thought-terminating cliché

  • Truism


  • Sources


  • http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/platitude Merriam Webster Online Dictionary Entry


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