Truism
11truism — noun Date: 1708 an undoubted or self evident truth; especially one too obvious for mention • truistic adjective …
12truism — truistic, truistical, adj. /trooh iz euhm/, n. a self evident, obvious truth. [1700 10; TRUE + ISM] Syn. cliché, platitude. * * * …
13truism — noun a) A self evident or obvious truth. b) A banality or cliché …
14truism — Synonyms and related words: a priori truth, abstraction, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, banality, brocard, bromide, cliche, commonplace, dictate, dictum, formula, general idea, generalization, generalized proposition, glittering generality, gnome,… …
15truísm — s. n., pl. truísme …
16truism — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. platitude. See maxim, unmeaningness. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. commonplace, self evident truth, adage; see cliché , motto , proverb . See Synonym Study at cliché . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n.… …
17truism — tru|is|m [ˈtru:ızəm] n a statement that is clearly true, so that there is no need to say it ▪ His speech was just a collection of clichés and truisms …
18truism — tru|ism [ tru,ızəm ] noun count a statement that does not really need to be made because everyone already knows it is true …
19truism — tru·ism || truËɪzm n. obvious fact, self evident truth …
20truism — noun 1》 a statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting. 2》 Logic a proposition that states nothing beyond what is implied by any of its terms. Derivatives truistic ɪstɪk adjective …