platitude

  1. Noun.  An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse; a cliché.
  2. Noun.  Unoriginality; triteness.
  3. Noun.  A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.

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