Banality vs. Platitude

(uncountable) The quality of being banal.

(countable) Something which is banal.

A feudal right or obligation, especially the obligation for a peasant to grind grain at the lord's mill, or the profits accruing from such rights.

Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.

Example: ‘The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse.’;

a trite or obvious remark

An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a cliché.

Unoriginality; triteness.

A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.

The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.

Example: ‘To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude.’;

A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace.

a trite or obvious remark

a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful

Example: ‘she began uttering liberal platitudes’;

A platitude is a trite, meaningless, or prosaic statement, often used as a thought-terminating cliché, aimed at quelling social, emotional, or cognitive unease. The statement may be true, but its meaning has been lost due to its excessive use.Platitudes have been criticized as giving a false impression of wisdom, making it easy to accept falsehoods: A platitude is even worse than a cliché.