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tru·ism    Audio Help   [troo-iz-uhm] Pronunciation Key
–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    Audio Help   (trōō'ĭz'əm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A self-evident truth. See Synonyms at cliché.

tru·is'tic (trōō-ĭs'tĭk) adj.
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truism

noun
an obvious truth 

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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.

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