TRITENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)