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Triteness

noun

Unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed. Synonym: staleness.

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"Triteness" Quotes from Famous Books

... comes to the eyes in meditation. In short, applause was to him a business, in which he was perpetually on the lookout for gain. His style of paying compliments, charming to superficial people, seemed insulting to others of more delicacy, by its triteness and the cool assurance of its cut-and-dried flattery. As a matter of fact, Melchior lied like a courtier. He remarked without blushing to the Duc de Chaulieu, who made no impression whatever when he was obliged to address the Chamber ...

— Modeste Mignon • Honore de Balzac

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... say, Julia, that were you to marry one who thinks so much of what he surrenders for you, and who requires from yourself so vast a return of love, you should tremble for the future happiness of both of us. Julia, the triteness of that fear proves that you love not at all. I do not tremble for our future happiness; on the contrary, the intensity of my passion for you makes me know that we never can be happy, never beyond the first rapture of our union. Happiness is ...

— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Words linked to "Triteness" : trite, camp, staleness, unoriginality