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It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.
Louis Freeh

Meaning of "truism" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TRUISM

From true + -ism.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TRUISM

truism  [ˈtruːɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRUISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Truism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRUISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Truism

A truism is a claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to be hardly worth mentioning, except as a reminder or as a rhetorical or literary device and is the opposite of falsism. In philosophy, a sentence which asserts incomplete truth conditions for a proposition may be regarded as a truism. An example of such a sentence would be: "Under appropriate conditions, the sun rises." Without contextual support – a statement of what those appropriate conditions are – the sentence is true but incontestable. A statement which is true by definition would also be considered a truism. This is quite similar to a tautology in which the conclusion of a statement is essentially equivalent to its premise, a statement that is "true by virtue of its logical form alone". The word may also be used with a different sense in rhetoric, to disguise the fact that a proposition is really just an opinion. Similarly, stating an accepted truth about life in general can also be called a truism.

Definition of truism in the English dictionary

The definition of truism in the dictionary is an obvious truth; platitude.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRUISM


absenteeism
ˌæbsənˈtiːɪzəm
babuism
ˈbɑːbuːɪzəm
Dadaism
ˈdɑːdɑːɪzəm
deism
ˈdiːɪzəm
guruism
ˈɡʊruːɪzəm
hoodooism
ˈhuːduːɪzəm
hylotheism
ˌhaɪləˈθiːɪzəm
jujuism
ˈdʒuːdʒuːɪzəm
panentheism
ˌpænɛnˈθiːɪzəm
presenteeism
ˌprɛzənˈtiːɪzəm
Sadduceeism
ˈsædjʊˌsiːɪzəm
Shiism
ˈʃiːɪzəm
siddhuism
ˈsɪˈduːɪzəm
sutteeism
sʌˈtiːɪzəm
theism
ˈθiːɪzəm
tuism
ˈtjuːɪzəm
untruism
ʌnˈtruːɪzəm
Vishnuism
ˈvɪʃnuːɪzəm
voodooism
ˈvuːduːɪzəm
yahooism
jəˈhuːɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRUISM

trueness
truepenny
truer
truest
Truffaut
truffle
trug
trugo
truing
truistic
Trujillo
Truk Islands
trull
truly
Truman
trumeau
trumeaux
trump
trump card

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRUISM

altruism
anthropophuism
caciquism
cliquism
demagoguism
euphuism
Hinduism
pedagoguism
Sinarquism
somniloquism
ventriloquism

Synonyms and antonyms of truism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TRUISM»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «truism» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of truism

Translation of «truism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRUISM

Find out the translation of truism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of truism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «truism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

真理
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

truismo
570 millions of speakers

English

truism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

truism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البديهي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

трюизм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

truísmo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বত: সিদ্ধ সত্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

truisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Truism
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Binsenweisheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自明の理
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자명 한 이치
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Truism
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự thật đương nhiên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உலகறிந்த உண்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सत्यवाद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

herkesin bildiği gerçek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

truismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

truizm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

трюїзм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

truism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κοινοτοπία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

truisme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

truism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

truism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of truism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRUISM»

The term «truism» is regularly used and occupies the 83.375 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRUISM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about truism

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6 QUOTES WITH «TRUISM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word truism.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.
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Louis Freeh
It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.
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Robert A. Heinlein
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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John Logan
Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.
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Barry Ritholtz
Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.
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Leonard Alfred George Strong
People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRUISM»

Discover the use of truism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to truism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Writing and Difference
If, on the contrary, by "truism" one understands, in the realm of judgment, analytic affirmation and the poverty of tautology, then the incriminated proposition is perhaps the least analytic of all; for if there were to be only one thought in the world ...
Jacques Derrida, 1978
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Research Comparisons And Medical Applications Of Ericksonian ...
... (1980) can be constructed by combining a truism with a direct suggestion. Often these constructions imply a causative link between the truism and the direct suggestion, although logically no such causation exists. Implication. "If you sit down, ...
Stephen R. Lankton, Jeffrey K. Zeig, 2013
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Lyrical Bible
Truism. Tortures. and. Misfortunes. of. Life. Unfortunately our past tortures and misfortunes are simply a part of life They always come to those who are destined for death, injury, or violent strife Whether it's political, religious, breaking one's will , ...
Gregory Von Lee, 2011
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FINALLY! The Stuff You REALLY Need To Improve Your Life
To Really Change Your Life, Change Your Thinking ................14 3. Start by Understanding and Believing the Ten Truisms .............28 4. Truism #1: People Often Corrupt Their Own Thinking ............36 5. Truism #2: Believing Murphy's Laws ...
Paul Skornik, 2013
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A Prosentential Theory of Truth
We might view Fred's remark as elliptical for 'That is a truism', and view this on analogy with 'You believe it', as tantamount to a prosentence prefixed by a connective—'It-is-a-truism-that that is true', where the prosentential fragment 'that is true' ...
Dorothy Grover, 2014
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Relating to Responsibility: Essays for Tony Honoré on His ...
The third puzzle is to make some coherent sense of the idea that the needed exercise of self-control is so much as possible. The source of the problem here lies in a truism in the philosophy of action, a truism popularised by Donald Davidson ...
Peter Cane, Tony Honoré, John Gardner, 2001
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On that Point!: An Introduction to Parliamentary Debate
Truism The truism, another example of a fairness violation in parliamentary debating, is also suspect. The truism is an opposition argument explaining that the proposition team has offered an interpretation of the motion that is an objective ...
John Meany, Kate Shuster, 2003
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ADV EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
varied, so that sometimes 15 represented complete acceptance of the truism, and sometimes complete rejection. However, in the results reported below, to make reading easier, the appropriate responses are reversed so that the 15 score ...
Leonard Berkowitz, 1964
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Eternal Words: The Immortal Series
The advantage of a good truism is that it is difficult to distort." "How so?" "Take a typical truism like evil prevails when good men do nothing. Anyway when one hears such a truism he remembers the idea rather than the exact words. As long as ...
J. J. Dewey, 2006
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Democracy and Moral Development
My leave to call this a truism rests in well-recognized cases, for example, when citizens are called upon to risk their lives in defense of their country; or when a parent must risk herself to save her child. Moreover it is not only supreme tests that ...
David L. Norton, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRUISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term truism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Gasquet's treatment of triumph and despair highlights a tennis truism
Being happy in defeat might have been a measure of maturity for Rudyard Kipling, but winners consider triumph and disaster quite differently. Photograph: David ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
One more truism; even superheroes like glitter
DECATUR – Being in the hospital can be scary and upsetting. Having something comforting to hold and cuddle can make it easier. Read more ... «Herald & Review, Jul 15»
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Lion expert to explainal truism in big cats
In this photo taken by a remote camera, female cougar F-61, right, caches a carcass as her son M-80 stands by. Researcher Mark Elbroch will discuss altruism ... «Jackson Hole News&Guide, Jun 15»
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EDITORIAL: A Truism: Rome needs Shorter, and Shorter needs Rome
Another truism is that people don't always appreciate what they have in their own backyard. To that point as it relates to Shorter University, consider the views of ... «Northwest Georgia News, Jun 15»
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Market Truisms with Powerful Meanings
But despite all those words, and all the deep thinking I've done on the market during those 5,840 days, I'm not very good at coming up with truisms—i.e., short, ... «Cabot Wealth Advisory, Jun 15»
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Column 8 tunnels towards truth and truism
C8 is forwarding to Laurie McDougall the generous correspondence we have received in the week since he asked, on behalf of 99-year-old dad, about the ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 14»
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Olivia Wilde Speaks Out in Support of Prop 47, Explains That …
I've always felt that way, but having a baby this year really drove that truism home," Wilde began. "Being a mother has reinforced and refined my thinking on ... «E! Online, Oct 14»
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Motte and Bailey Doctrines
Troll's Truisms are indeed based in equivocation A Troll's Truism is an ambiguous statement by which an exciting falsehood may trade on a trivial truth. «Practical Ethics, Sep 14»
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Politico Asks What Glenn Greenwald Has Done for Us Lately
This seems to be pushing the old journo-truism, that you're only as good as your last piece, a bit far. It is, however, a perfect evocation of Politico's version of that ... «Mediaite, Sep 14»
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If your friends feel like family, there's a good reason for it
WASHINGTON The truism that friends are the family you choose may be more accurate than you might suppose. A study published on Monday found that ... «Reuters, Jul 14»

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