| NOUN | cognition | staleness, triteness | unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed |
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| attribute | staleness | having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging |
| Meaning | unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed. | |
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| Synonym | triteness | |
| Narrower | camp | Something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality |
| Broader | unoriginality | uncreativeness due to a lack of originality |
| Adjectives | stale | lacking originality or spontaneity |
| Meaning | Having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging. | |
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| Attributes | stale | Lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age |
| Narrower | mustiness, must, moldiness | The quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy |
| Broader | oldness | The opposite of youngness |
| Opposite | freshness | The property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made) |
| Spanish | trivialidad | |
| Catalan | trivialitat | |
| Adjectives | stale | lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age |
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