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truism

[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

Can be confused: truism, truth.

Synonyms
cliché, platitude.

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It is a truism that the stock market is a pendulum swinging between fear and greed.

The green movement takes as a truism that ecosystems are healthier when they contain many species of plants.

It is a truism that the average investor cannot beat the market after costs.

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It is a truism that the stock market is a pendulum swinging between fear and greed.

The green movement takes as a truism that ecosystems are healthier when they contain many species of plants.

It is a truism that the average investor cannot beat the market after costs.

It may be a truism but it's still worth trumpeting-when it starts to rain, good photographers head out to make pictures.

The headline could mean the truism that the brain is used by primates in touching and moving objects.

There's the truism about a weed's being a flower where you don't want it, or whatever.

But it's also a truism that the end of the road usually turns out to be a disappointment.

However, it's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.

For years, it was a medical truism that the earlier cancer could be detected, the better.

It is almost a truism of the nature of online teaching.

But it is now a truism that a central bank's words are as important as its actions.

In other words, the truism that more information is always better proved untrue when life got a little messy.

IT is a truism of urban redevelopment: whatever shabby spot artists choose to populate, that place will be gentrified next.

He begins with the simple truism that the aim of human life is happiness.

But it is a truism of economics that a country cannot control both its exchange rate and its interest rate simultaneously.

It is a truism among baby boomers that none of them ever really feels grown up.

It's a truism of community service that doing something for others usually ends up being a lot more beneficial to you.

Progressives should not meet this truism so defensively.

It has become a postmodern truism that all nature is experienced through the lens of culture.

It's an unfortunate modern truism that all genocides aren't equal in their impact.

But in certain cases, it's an economic truism that a social planner can produce better outcomes than the market.

Too bad that truism is so hard for program builders to recognize, or at any rate to put into action.

As for the saving point, it is a truism that globally, the surpluses of private and public sectors must net out.

It has become a truism for this depressed region: the first to feel a recession, the last to feel a recovery.

You're absolutely correct but that truism reflects no more than half of the capitalist formula.

Recently, my thoughts have again wandered over this ancient truism.

It is an economic truism that savings must equal investment.

WE are always being handed the truism that theater matters because nothing else can match the excitement of live performance.

It is seen as a truism that having money helps you win elections.

But the truism that less is more is as viable an argument in theater as it is in other aesthetic realms.

To wit: to use a common truism languages are live organisms.

And, third, it is a bipartisan political truism that it is the people who lead and the elected officials who follow.

It is a truism a democracy can only be as good as the people who compose the governing, and trhe people who compose the governed.

Legitimate anger, but anger vulnerable to manipulation, a truism in struggles around the world.

The experience affirmed for me an old truism of travel: you.

Another truism of parenting is about to become untrue.

It's a truism of art history that while men act, women appear, smiling demurely away from the gaze of the viewer.

One might boil it all down to a matter of timing--a truism in every field of employment.

After all, the truism is that piracy is a problem that takes.

The experience affirmed for me an old truism of travel:.

Yes, it's become almost a truism that all men are dogs.

It is a truism of fashion that the more time you spend following it, the more interested you become in clothes.

Indeed, a truism of economic development is that the more a country relies on natural resources, the lower its growth rate.

The reason has to do with a truism about the computer game industry.

Men, the truism went, did not do their share of the grocery shopping or diaper changing.

It is a truism that every generation needs its own translations.

It has long been a truism in sports: there is perhaps no player more important in any team game than the quarterback.

Spoto has demonstrated time and again the old truism that art is often a compensation for wounds.

It is a truism of markets that a good time to invest is at the bottom of the business cycle.

The disparity underlined the truism that in the theater, as elsewhere, context is everything.

Their research turned up a truism known to almost anyone who has ever cursed a washing machine:.

It is a truism in medicine that many specialists have tunnel vision limited to the procedure they are carrying out.

It's a truism in food: eating less but better leads to maximum health, happiness and value.

Traditionalists may consider the turn away from ashrams and gurus a caveat to the capitalist truism that whatever sells is good.

In this business, it's a truism that aging editors can't write.

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World English Dictionary

truism (ˈtruːɪzəm)

—n
	an obvious truth; platitude

[C18: from true + -ism]

tru'istic

—*adj*

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