Synonyms for triteness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : trahyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : traɪt |
Top 10 synonyms for triteness Other synonyms for the word triteness
- adage
- boiler plate
- cliché
- counterword
- emotionalness
- familiar tune
- flatness
- gushiness
- hackneyed saying
- high camp
- hokum
- inanity
- insipidity
- maudlinism
- maudlinness
- mawkishness
- melodramatics
- monotony
- motto
- mushiness
- old chestnut
- old story
- platitude
- potboiler
- prosaicism
- prosaism
- prose
- proverb
- reminiscence
- rubber stamp
- saw
- saying
- sentiment
- sentimentalism
- shallowness
- shibboleth
- slogan
- stale saying
- stereotype
- tag
- threadbare phrase
- trite remark
- triteness
- triviality
- triviality truism
- truism
- vapid expression
- vapidity
- verbiage
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for triteness
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