cliche (n.)

• abstraction
• banality
• bromide
• byword
• catchword
• chestnut
• commonness
• commonplace
• commonplaceness
• corn
• cry
• generalization
• hack
• mustiness
• platitude
• prose
• reiteration
• shibboleth
• slogan
• squareness
• staleness
• stereotype
• tag
• triteness
• truism
• unoriginality