1. 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.