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TRITENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed
Synonyms:
staleness; triteness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
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)
