platitude(n = noun.communication) banality, bromide, cliche, commonplace - a trite or obvious remark;
is a kind of comment, input, remark, truism
Derived form adjective platitudinous1
1. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language. [1913 Webster]
"To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude." [1913 Webster]
2. A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace. [1913 Webster]
platitude, n.
1 a trite or commonplace remark, esp. one solemnly delivered.
2 the use of platitudes; dullness, insipidity.
Derivative:
platitudinize v.intr. (also -ise). platitudinous adj.
Etymology:
F f. plat flat, after certitude, multitudinous, etc.
N dullness, heaviness, flatness, infestivity &c, stupidity want of originality, dearth of ideas, prose, matter of fact, heavy book, conte a dormir debout, platitude, dull, dull as ditch water, unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust, unfunny, unlively, logy, unimaginative, insulse, dry as dust, prosy, prosing, prosaic, matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless, weary stale flat and unprofitable, stupid, slow, flat, insipid, vapid, humdrum, monotonous, melancholic, stolid plodding, boring, tiresome, tedious, davus sum non Aedipus, deadly dull and boring, DDB.
N meaninglessness, unmeaningness, scrabble, empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal, nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish, jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie, inanity, flap-doodle, rigmarole, rodomontade, truism, nugae canorae, twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug, poppy-cock, stuff, stuff and nonsense, bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle- faddle, absurdity, vagueness, boilerplate, clich_¬, unmeaning, meaningless, senseless, nonsensical, void of sense, inexpressive, unexpressive, vacant, not significant, insignificant, trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling, unmeant, not expressed, tacit, inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable.