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Truism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A self-evident truth. See Synonyms at cliché.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A self-evident or obvious truth.

n. A banality or cliché.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An undoubted or self-evident truth.

n. Synonyms Aphorism, Axiom, Maxim, etc. See aphorism.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an obvious truth

Word Usage

"Unfortunately, it has come to a point that a good test of a political "truism" is that, if a partisan Republican running for or holding office proclaims it, it is probably not true."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

truth true statement

Hyponym

bromide banality cliché commonplace platitude

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

saying

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

grotesqueness adage catchwords cliché discontinuity classicus platitude