évidence
See also: evidence
French
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin ēvidentia. A false friend of evidence.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editévidence f (plural évidences)
- obviousness, clearness
- Il faut se rendre à l’évidence.
- We must face the facts.
- C’est l’évidence même.
- It is completely obvious.
- Si vous êtes venu uniquement pour expliquer des évidences comme celles-là, vous feriez tout aussi bien de repartir.
- If you came just to state the obvious like this, you would do just as well to go home.
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editFurther reading
edit- “évidence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.