Truism
1truism — TRUÍSM, truisme, s.n. (livr.) Adevăr evident, banal; loc comun. – Din fr. truisme. Trimis de laura tache, 24.10.2002. Sursa: DEX 98 TRUÍSM s. v. banalitate, loc comun, platitudine, prozaism. Trimis de siveco, 13.09.2007. Sursa: Sinonime … …
2Truism — Tru ism, n. [From {True}.] An undoubted or self evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; opposed to falsism. [1913 Webster] Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words. J. P. Smith.… …
3truism — index platitude, postulate, principle (axiom) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
4truism — 1708, from TRUE (Cf. true) + ISM (Cf. ism); first attested in Swift …
5truism — *commonplace, platitude, bromide, cliché Analogous words: triteness, threadbareness (see corresponding adjectives at TRITE): banality, jejuneness, inanity (see corresponding adjectives at INSIPID) …
6truism — ► NOUN ▪ a statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting …
7truism — [tro͞o′iz΄əm] n. a statement the truth of which is obvious or well known; commonplace SYN. PLATITUDE truistic adj …
8Truism — A truism is a claim that is so obvious or self evident as to be hardly worth mentioning, except as a reminder or as a rhetorical or literary device.In logic, a proposition may be a truism even if it is not a tautology, a restatement of a… …
9truism — [[t]tru͟ːɪzəm[/t]] truisms N COUNT A truism is a statement that is generally accepted as obviously true and is repeated so often that it has become boring. Orpington seems an example of the truism that nothing succeeds like success... Whilst this …
10truism — UK [ˈtruːɪz(ə)m] / US [ˈtruˌɪzəm] noun [countable] Word forms truism : singular truism plural truisms a statement that does not really need to be made because everyone already knows it is true …
