triteness
1triteness — 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 …
2Triteness — Trite Trite (tr[imac]t), a. [L. tritus, p. p. of terere to rub, to wear out; probably akin to E. throw. See {Throw}, and cf. {Contrite}, {Detriment}, {Tribulation}, {Try}.] Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and… …
3triteness — noun see trite …
4triteness — See tritely. * * * …
5triteness — noun a) The state or quality of being trite. b) The result or product of being trite …
6triteness — trite·ness || traɪtnɪs n. quality of being hackneyed, quality of being unoriginal …
7triteness — trite·ness …
8triteness — noun unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed • Syn: ↑staleness • Derivationally related forms: ↑stale (for: ↑staleness), ↑trite • Hypernyms: ↑unorig …
9Post-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 …
10bathos — 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… …
