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Antonyms for triteness

Grammar : Noun
Spell : trahyt
Phonetic Transcription : traɪt

Definition of triteness

Origin :
  • 1540s, from Latin tritus "worn, familiar," from past participle of terere "to rub, wear down" (see throw (v.)).
  • As in platitude : noun dull, overused saying
  • As in sentimentality : noun sentimentalism
  • As in maudlinism : noun sentimentality
  • As in mawkishness : noun sentimentality
  • As in mushiness : noun sentimentality
  • As in cliché : noun overused, hackneyed phrase
  • As in sappiness : noun sentimentality
  • As in schmaltz : noun sentimentality
  • As in schmaltziness : noun sentimentality
  • As in sentimentalism : noun sentimentality
  • As in sloppiness : noun sentimentality
  • As in commonplace : noun clichéd saying or idea
Example sentences :
  • You don't come it over me with the triteness of these round numbers.
  • Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
  • The triteness of his moral climax is occasionally startling.
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I » by John Morley
  • Triteness is present, but that is to be expected in all amateur fiction.
  • Extract from : « Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 » by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
  • Brouillard laughed and fell headlong into the pit of triteness.
  • Extract from : « The City of Numbered Days » by Francis Lynde
  • The triteness of words 'plus sonores que solides' is the second.
  • Extract from : « mile Verhaeren » by Stefan Zweig
  • And somehow the triteness of the phrase from mother is ridiculously pleasing to me.
  • Extract from : « The Fifth Wheel » by Olive Higgins Prouty
  • He was disgusted with the triteness of this remark, but he could think of nothing else.
  • Extract from : « Birthright » by T.S. Stribling
  • The meagerness and triteness of the music and piece astonished me.
  • Extract from : « Records of a Girlhood » by Frances Ann Kemble
  • He grimaced at the triteness of the words, at the same time realizing that a basic truth lurked there.
  • Extract from : « Deathworld » by Harry Harrison
  • Obscurity of expression is merely the cloak in which men seek to hide their poverty of thought and triteness of mind.
  • Extract from : « Schopenhauer » by Margrieta Beer

Synonyms for triteness

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