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truism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | true statement, truth |
| Has types | cliche, banality, platitude, commonplace, bromide |
Examples of truism
truism
In my experience this truism is completely unrelated to race or to your college.
From the thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com
It's so foundational to our society that at first blush, it looks like a truism.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
It's a curious truism that sometimes in sport the boldest move is to do nothing.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The greatest truism in this sorry saga is that with freedom comes responsibility.
From the independent.co.uk
Mike, surely you can see how this truism is leading you into a logical fallacy.
From the guardian.co.uk
Its a truism that the current crisis is the biggest since the Great Depression.
From the economist.com
There's a truism in politics that friends come and go, but enemies are forever.
From the signonsandiego.com
Recall the old free-market truism about dispersed costs and concentrated benefits.
From the ocregister.com
Our competitors are aggressively pursuing this truism even as we denigrate it.
From the latimes.com
- An obvious truth
- 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.
- "A self-evident truth" (OED). [Compare stating the bleeding obvious.]
