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tru⋅ism

  [troo-iz-uhm]
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–noun
a self-evident, obvious truth.
Origin:
1700–10; true + -ism

Related forms:
tru⋅is⋅tic, tru⋅is⋅ti⋅cal, adjective

Synonyms:
cliché, platitude.
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tru·ism   (trōō'ĭz'əm)   
n.  A self-evident truth. See Synonyms at cliché.
tru·is'tic (trōō-ĭs'tĭk) adj.
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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.

Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words. --J. P. Smith.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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