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TRITENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does triteness mean?
• TRITENESS (noun)
The noun TRITENESS has 1 sense:
1. unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed
Familiarity information: TRITENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
staleness; triteness
Hypernyms ("triteness" is a kind of...):
unoriginality (uncreativeness due to a lack of originality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "triteness"):
camp (something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality)
Derivation:
trite (repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse)
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