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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The corollary to this truism of the job market is that job-hunting is all about connections.
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The latest company to demonstrate this truism is AT&T, which repeatedly insisted during its nearly two-year effort to purchase media giant Time Warner that the $85-billion deal would practically be a Christmas present for consumers.
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Debate is healthy; debate is necessary; debate is American; those democratic truisms, however, haven’t always translated to discussions of American feminism.
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Yeah, a new improv double bill consisting of the iO teams Alterboyz and Wet Bus, clearly demonstrates this truism.
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Making unemployment an obstacle to getting a decent meal turns this obvious truism on its head.
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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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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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