Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Platitude

Platitude , noun

[French, from plat flat. See Plate.]

1.
The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.
To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude. — Motley
2.
A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace.