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Webster 1913 Edition

Truism

Tru′ism

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Noun.

[From

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

Trifling

truisms

clothed in great, swelling words.

J. P. Smith.

Webster 1828 Edition

Truism

TRU'ISM

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Noun.

[from true.] An undoubted or self-evident truth.

Trifling truisms clothed in great swelling words of vanity--

Definition 2024

truism

truism

English

Noun

truism ‎(plural truisms)

A self-evident or obvious truth.
A banality or cliché.

Synonyms

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Translations

self-evident or obvious truth

Catalan: obvietat f, (less common, unauthorized) truisme m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 陳詞濫調 (zh), 陈词滥调 (zh) ‎(chéncílàndiào)
Czech: samozřejmost f, truismus m
Esperanto: evidentaĵo (eo)
Finnish: itsestäänselvyys
French: lapalissade (fr) f, truisme (fr) m
German: Binsenwahrheit (de) f
Greek: κοινοτυπία (el) f ‎(koinotypía)
Italian: ovvietà (it) f, tautologia (it) f

Japanese: 自明の理 ‎(じめいのり, jimei no ri)
Norwegian: truisme m, (banal, forslitt, selvinnlysende) sannhet (no) c
Portuguese: truísmo (pt) m
Russian: труи́зм (ru) m ‎(truízm), трюи́зм (ru) m ‎(trjuízm), прописна́я и́стина f ‎(propisnája ístina), ляпалиссиа́да (ru) f ‎(ljapalissiáda)
Serbo-Croatian: truizam (sh)
Spanish: obviedad (es) f, (colloq.) perogrullada (es) f, (less common) truismo m
Welsh: gwireb f

banality or cliché

Catalan: banalitat f, lloc comú m, tòpic (ca) m, clixé m
Czech: banalita (cs) f, klišé (cs) n, otřepaná pravda f
Finnish: latteus (fi), klisee (fi)

Greek: κοινοτυπία (el) f ‎(koinotypía)
Italian: banalità (it) f, clichè m, luogo comune (it) m, tautologia (it) f
Russian: бана́льность (ru) f ‎(banálʹnostʹ), клише́ (ru) n ‎(klišé)
Spanish: banalidad f, lugar común m, tópico (es) m, cliché (es) m