Synonyms for truism

Grammar : Noun

Spell : troo-iz-uhm

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtru ɪz əm

Définition of truism

Origin : 1708, from true + -ism; first attested in Swift.

noun self-evident truth

Example sentences :

From the swing at golf to the manner of lighting a match in the wind, this truism applies.
Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White

After seeming to hover for a time on the verge of a great truth, we have gained only a truism.
Extract from : « Philebus » by Plato

"As above so below, and as below so above," is a truism which we may safely take as our first maxim.
Extract from : « Sex=The Unknown Quantity » by Ali Nomad

All this is truism; but truisms are often the first things we forget.
Extract from : « New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 » by Various

I will begin by assuming that it is a truism, and will then try to prove that it is true.
Extract from : « What Is and What Might Be » by Edmond Holmes

Again, to assert the prominence of Jews as actors is uttering a truism.
Extract from : « Jewish Literature and Other Essays » by Gustav Karpeles

That is a truism, but no other saying can apply to what I am about to tell you.
Extract from : « A Coin of Edward VII » by Fergus Hume

If that's a truism, it's still the truth, as true as the fact that this ship cannot fail.
Extract from : « Breaking Point » by James E. Gunn

Do you stop this lecture to say that all this is a truism—a “chestnut”?
Extract from : « The Arena » by Various

It is a truism, that, when one loves truly, one is never satisfied.
Extract from : « She and I, Volume 2 » by John Conroy Hutcheson

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