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Definition of Truism
1. Noun. An obvious truth.
Specialized synonyms: Banality, Bromide, Cliche, Commonplace, Platitude
Definition of Truism
1. n. An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.
Definition of Truism
1. Noun. A self-evident or obvious truth. ¹
2. Noun. A banality or cliché. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Truism
1. an obvious truth [n -S] : TRUISTIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truism
Literary usage of Truism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1914)
"Every thinking person in the South and elsewhere knows this; it is a truism.
Given a "solid" country, anywhere, Sc the ready conclusion is that it is a ..."
2. The Republic of Republics: Or, American Federal Liberty by Bernard Janin Sage (1881)
"The Amendment a truism, though Useful. — But for the understanding that this
amendment at least would be added to the compact, the system would certainly ..."
3. The South-west by Joseph Holt Ingraham (1835)
"A tar's headway on land — A gentleman's at sea — An agreeable trio — Musical
sounds — Helmsman — Supper — Steward — A truism — Helmsman's cry — Effect ..."
4. Aristocracy and Evolution: A Study of the Rights, the Origin, and the Social by William Hurrell Mallock (1898)
"... great man owes his faculties to h: ancestors, an through his ancestors to the
society which helped to develop hi ancestors, though a speculative truism, ..."
5. The Theological and Literary Journal (1856)
"Our objection therefore to the first law is, that as'it stands, it is a useless
truism, and that as it is explained, it is not sustained. ..."
6. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"... vast mass of existing evil in the country, and that all men see that there is
but one remedy for the evil, viz. education, would but amount to a truism. ..."
7. English Songs: And Other Small Poems by Barry Cornwall (1851)
"truism. SEE, — Morning, in the East, unbinds her hair, Loosening its lustre on
the dewy ground, And springs upon her blue aerial way ! ..."
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