noun
- the quality of being overly neat, convenient, or simplistic in a way that seems artificial or unconvincing
Examples
- The patness of his explanation made everyone suspicious.
- Critics noted the patness of the movie’s ending.
- She disliked the patness of self-help books.
- The solution’s patness suggested it was too good to be true.
- His answers had a patness that revealed little real understanding.
- The patness of the coincidence strained credibility.