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A truth so true it stopped meaning anything.
means A stale, overused remark offered as if it were wisdom — true enough, but worn smooth of any real insight.
from Borrowed from French 'platitude,' meaning flatness or dullness, which traces back to 'plat' ('flat') — the same root that gives us 'plate' and 'plateau.' So a platitude is literally a 'flatness': a statement so leveled by repetition that it has no bumps, no edges, nothing left to catch your attention.
- etymology
- French plat, meaning flat
- favorite habitat
- graduation speeches and sympathy cards
- function
- sounds wise, requires zero thought
- test
- if everyone nods, nobody listened