platitudinarianism means the tendency to use many platitudes in speaking or writing. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “platitudinarianism” is a great word
PLATITUDINARIANISM — [Noun] The habitual practice of filling speech or writing with platitudes—trite, insipid, and superficially profound statements. From platitudinarian (one who utters platitudes, from platitude, from French platitude 'flatness, dullness', from plat 'flat') + the suffix -ism, denoting a practice or doctrine. First attested in 1873. Unlike perissology (which denotes a general excess of words) or plainspokenness (which implies blunt, direct clarity), platitudinarianism is the specific art of saying nothing original with an air of conclusive wisdom. It is the numbing cadence of a political address, the saccharine consolation in a pre-printed sympathy card, and the bureaucratic memo that affirms a commitment to synergy in three vapid paragraphs—a liturgy of evasion, recited to fill a silence we are afraid to understand.
noun
- The tendency to use many platitudes in speaking or writing.