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A platitude is a statement which is considered meaningless and boring because it has been made many times before in similar situations.
To obtund is to dull or lessen the pain of something. If your senses have been obtunded, you are probably pretty out of it. The verb obtund is rare today, used mainly in medical terminology, and usually in the form of the adjective obtunded. It's been around since about 1400, meaning to make dull or to make less sensitive, and rooted in the Latin obtundere, to blunt or weaken, or literally to beat against..