platitudeness

English

Etymology

platitude +‎ -ness

Noun

platitudeness (uncountable)

1. (nonstandard) The quality of being platitudinous; platitudinousness.
   • 1978, Yearbook - Canadian Society for the Study of Education, page 28:

     Notwithstanding the platitudeness of the comment that teacher education is a complex issue, and while accepting in advance the merit of many of the points made in other papers in this yearbook, the major thesis of this paper is that the policies and programs of teacher education institutions have been remiss in the past with respect to their degree of attention to the impact of computer technology […]

   • 2006, Christine Matzke, Geoffrey V. Davis, Of Minstrelsy and Masks: The Legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian Writing, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 122:

     BOMBER BILLY: Look here! Are you promoltigating your exorditation or articulating superficial sentimentality and amicable philosophical observation? Beware of platitudeness and ponderosity and learn to respect my intergrity.

   • 2012, Aki Lehtinen, Jaakko Kuorikoski, Petri Ylikoski, Economics for Real, page 252:

     Arguing for the strangeness of the facts you have been able to explain, and for the platitudeness of the ideas on which your theory is based, serves thus to score the theory higher in the valuations your colleagues make.

Usage notes

This spelling is sometimes used in error for the adjective platitudinous.