'Truism' definitions:
Definition of 'truism'
(from WordNet)
noun
An obvious truth
Definition of 'Truism'
From: GCIDE
- Truism \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. [1913 Webster]
- Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words. --J. P. Smith. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'truism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a priori truth,
- abstraction,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- axiom,
- banality,
- brocard,
- bromide,
- cliche,
- commonplace,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- formula,
- general idea,
- generalization,
- generalized proposition,
- glittering generality,
- gnome,
- golden rule,
- gospel,
- hackneyed expression,
- law,
- lieu commun,
- locus communis,
- maxim,
- moral,
- platitude,
- postulate,
- principium,
- principle,
- proposition,
- prosaicism,
- prosaism,
- rubber stamp,
- rule,
- self-evident truth,
- settled principle,
- shibboleth,
- sweeping statement,
- tag,
- theorem,
- tired cliche,
- truth,
- universal truth,
- verity