noun
Meaning 1
A self-evident or obvious truth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lapalissade, platitude
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
truism
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A banality or cliché.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: platitude, byword, saying, adage, saw, proverb, maxim, apothegm, apophthegm, dictum, gnome, gnomic saying, mantra, paroemia
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
an obvious truth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: truth, true statement
Narrower terms: platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English true Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English truism From true + -ism.
Across languages
Translations
75 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: всеизвестен факт (vseizvesten fakt) — self-evident or obvious truth
- Catalan: obvietat — self-evident or obvious truth
- Catalan: truisme — self-evident or obvious truth
- Chinese Mandarin: 陳詞濫調 /陈词滥调 (chéncílàndiào) — self-evident or obvious truth
- Czech: samozřejmost — self-evident or obvious truth
- Czech: truismus — self-evident or obvious truth
- Dutch: gemeenplaats — self-evident or obvious truth
- Esperanto: evidentaĵo — self-evident or obvious truth
- Finnish: itsestäänselvyys — self-evident or obvious truth
- Finnish: selviö — self-evident or obvious truth
- French: lapalissade — self-evident or obvious truth
- French: truisme — self-evident or obvious truth
- Galician: truísmo — self-evident or obvious truth
- Galician: simpleza — self-evident or obvious truth
- Galician: verdade de pé de banco — self-evident or obvious truth
- German: Binsenwahrheit — self-evident or obvious truth
- German: Binsenweisheit — self-evident or obvious truth
- German: Gemeinplatz — self-evident or obvious truth
- German: Truismus — self-evident or obvious truth
- German: Binse — self-evident or obvious truth
- German: Allgemeinplatz — self-evident or obvious truth
- Greek: κοινοτυπία (koinotypía) — self-evident or obvious truth
- Hungarian: közhely — self-evident or obvious truth
- Italian: ovvietà — self-evident or obvious truth
- Italian: tautologia — self-evident or obvious truth
- Japanese: 自明の理 (jimei no ri) — self-evident or obvious truth
- Norwegian: truisme — self-evident or obvious truth
- Polish: truizm — self-evident or obvious truth
- Portuguese: truísmo — self-evident or obvious truth
- Romanian: truism — self-evident or obvious truth
- Russian: труи́зм (truízm) — self-evident or obvious truth
- Russian: трюи́зм (trjuízm) — self-evident or obvious truth
- Russian: прописна́я и́стина (propisnája ístina) — self-evident or obvious truth
- Russian: ляпалиссиа́да (ljapalissiáda) — self-evident or obvious truth
- Serbo-Croatian: truizam — self-evident or obvious truth
- Spanish: obviedad — self-evident or obvious truth
- Spanish: perogrullada — self-evident or obvious truth
- Spanish: truismo — self-evident or obvious truth
- Spanish: verdad de Perogrullo — self-evident or obvious truth
- Spanish: grullada — self-evident or obvious truth
- Turkish: apaçık gerçek — self-evident or obvious truth
- Welsh: gwireb — self-evident or obvious truth
- Bulgarian: баналност (banalnost) — banality or cliché
- Catalan: banalitat — banality or cliché
- Catalan: lloc comú — banality or cliché
- Catalan: tòpic — banality or cliché
- Catalan: clixé — banality or cliché
- Czech: banalita — banality or cliché
- Czech: klišé — banality or cliché
- Czech: otřepaná pravda — banality or cliché
- Finnish: latteus — banality or cliché
- Finnish: klisee — banality or cliché
- Galician: banalidade — banality or cliché
- Galician: obviedade — banality or cliché
- Galician: trivialidade — banality or cliché
- German: Banalität — banality or cliché
- German: Klischee — banality or cliché
- German: Floskel — banality or cliché
- German: Plattitüde — banality or cliché
- German: Gemeinplatz — banality or cliché
- German: Allgemeinplatz — banality or cliché
- Greek: κοινοτυπία (koinotypía) — banality or cliché
- Italian: banalità — banality or cliché
- Italian: clichè — banality or cliché
- Italian: luogo comune — banality or cliché
- Italian: tautologia — banality or cliché
- Romanian: banalitate — banality or cliché
- Russian: бана́льность (banálʹnostʹ) — banality or cliché
- Russian: клише́ (klišé) — banality or cliché
- Serbo-Croatian: truizam — banality or cliché
- Spanish: banalidad — banality or cliché
- Spanish: lugar común — banality or cliché
- Spanish: tópico — banality or cliché
- Spanish: cliché — banality or cliché
- Turkish: banal ya da klişe — banality or cliché