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Re: DarkLady post# 17512

Sunday, 11/12/2017 3:48:23 PM

Sunday, November 12, 2017 3:48:23 PM

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A platitude is a trite, meaningless, or prosaic statement, generally directed at quelling social, emotional, or cognitive unease. Platitudes are geared towards presenting a shallow, unifying wisdom over a difficult topic. However, they are too general and overused to be anything more than undirected statements with ultimately little meaningful contribution towards a solution.

Examples could be statements such as "it is what it is", "meet in the middle", "busy as a bee", "method to my madness", "better late than never", "just be yourself", "burning the midnight oil", "strength is something you choose" and "nobody's perfect". Platitudes are generally a form of thought-terminating cliché.