Meaning of TRUISM
| Pronunciation: | | 'trooizum
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[n] an obvious truth |
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TRUISM is a 6 letter word that starts with T. |
| | See Also: | | banality, bromide, cliche, commonplace, platitude, true statement, truth | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words. --J.
P. Smith.
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