Definition of truism
: an undoubted or self-evident truth;
especially
: one too obvious for mention
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Examples of truism in a Sentence
ended his letter with the overused truism, “You can't win them all!”
Recent Examples of truism from the Web
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While that is mostly true, there are plenty of examples of people and organizations defying that truism with their overwhelming generosity.
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There is a truism in the NBA that the ball will find energy.
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In its current form, the play offers only another proof of an old truism — that an artist’s biography is often the least interesting part of his art.
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The acute stress response, coined fight or flight by psychologist and scientist Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon in 1915, has become a cultural truism.
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The digital screens intone that simply speaking Tut’s name will ensure his immortality — a marketing truism faking ancient profundity in an automated performance heavy on the ham and cheese.
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All the while one truism remains: Nothing beats one-on-one therapy and hands-on care.
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Loesch’s reply to González summoned a longstanding truism in American politics: motherhood, as a moral force.
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Plumbers have their own low-temp truisms (pipes burst), as do drivers (batteries fail), engineers (metal breaks) and doctors (joints ache from cold, bones crack from falls).
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First Known Use of truism
1714
truism Synonyms
Synonyms
banality, bromide, chestnut, cliché (also cliche), commonplace, groaner, homily, platitude, shibboleth;
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TRUISM Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of truism for English Language Learners
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: a true statement that is very commonly heard : a common statement that is obviously true
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