The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
triteness — trite ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a remark or idea) lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse. DERIVATIVES tritely adverb triteness noun. ORIGIN Latin tritus rubbed … English terms dictionary
triteness — noun see trite … New Collegiate Dictionary
triteness — See tritely. * * * … Universalium
triteness — noun a) The state or quality of being trite. b) The result or product of being trite … Wiktionary
triteness — trite·ness || traɪtnɪs n. quality of being hackneyed, quality of being unoriginal … English contemporary dictionary
triteness — trite·ness … English syllables
triteness — noun unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed • Syn: ↑staleness • Derivationally related forms: ↑stale (for: ↑staleness), ↑trite • Hypernyms: ↑unorig … Useful english dictionary
Post-postmodernism — is a term applied to a wide ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism. Contents 1 Periodization 2 Definitions … Wikipedia
bathos — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sentimentality; anticlimax. See feeling, wit. Ant., dispassion. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. melodrama, maudlinness, triteness; see pathos , sentimentality . See Synonym Study at pathos . III (Roget s 3… … English dictionary for students
commonplace — n Commonplace, platitude, truism, bromide, cliche mean an idea or expression lacking in originality or freshness. A commonplace is a stock idea or expression which is frequently little more than the obvious, conventional, and easy thing to think… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
