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Hackneyed vs. Platitude — What's the Difference?

Hackneyed vs. Platitude — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Hackneyed and Platitude

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Hackneyed

Overfamiliar through overuse; trite.

Platitude

A platitude is a trite, meaningless, or prosaic statement, often used as a thought-terminating cliché, aimed at quelling social, emotional, or cognitive unease. The statement may be true, but its meaning has been lost due to its excessive use.Platitudes have been criticized as giving a false impression of wisdom, making it easy to accept falsehoods: A platitude is even worse than a cliché.

Hackneyed

Repeated too often.
The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.

Platitude

A remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful
She began uttering liberal platitudes

Hackneyed

(dated) Let out for hire.
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Platitude

A trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant.

Hackneyed

Simple past tense and past participle of hackney

Platitude

Lack of originality; triteness
"a passage of platitude which no critical prejudgment can force us to admire" (Edgar Allan Poe).

Hackneyed

Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
Bromidic sermons
His remarks were trite and commonplace
Hackneyed phrases
A stock answer
Repeating threadbare jokes
Parroting some timeworn axiom
The trite metaphor `hard as nails'

Platitude

(countable) An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a cliché.

Platitude

(countable) A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.

Platitude

(uncountable) Flatness; lack of change, activity, or deviation.

Platitude

(uncountable) Unoriginality; triteness.

Platitude

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.

Platitude

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

Platitude

A trite or obvious remark

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