truism

English

Alternative forms

• trueism (archaic)

Etymology

true +‎ -ism

Noun

truism (plural truisms)

1. A self-evident or obvious truth.

   Synonyms: lapalissade, platitude

   • 2018 November 13, Kate Julian, “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     The phrase If something exists, there is porn of it used to be a clever internet meme; now it’s a truism.

2. A banality or cliché.

   Synonyms: platitude; see also Thesaurus:saying

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Remembrance of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 321:

     After a little decent sorrow had been put forth for the late "severe affliction," joined with some weariful truisms about resignation to the will of Providence, the rest of the epistle was filled up with reproofs about her ladyship's extraordinary and improper conduct in setting off without his consent!

Derived terms

• truismatic

Translations

self-evident or obvious truth

• Bulgarian: всеизвестен факт (vseizvesten fakt)
• Catalan: obvietat f, (less common, unauthorized) truisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陳詞濫調／陈词滥调 (zh) (chéncílàndiào)

• Czech: samozřejmost f, truismus m
• Dutch: gemeenplaats (nl) f
• Esperanto: evidentaĵo
• Finnish: itsestäänselvyys (fi), selviö (fi)
• French: lapalissade (fr) f, truisme (fr) m
• German: Binsenwahrheit (de) f, Binsenweisheit (de) f, Gemeinplatz (de) m, Truismus (de) m, Binse (de) f, Allgemeinplatz (de) m
• Greek: κοινοτυπία (el) f (koinotypía)
• Hungarian: közhely (hu)
• Italian: ovvietà (it) f, tautologia (it) f
• Japanese: 自明の理 (じめいのり, jimei no ri)
• Norwegian: truisme m, (banal, forslitt, selvinnlysende) sannhet (no) c
• Polish: truizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: truísmo (pt) m
• Romanian: truism (ro) n
• Russian: труи́зм (ru) m (truízm), трюи́зм (ru) m (trjuízm), прописна́я и́стина (ru) f (propisnája ístina), ляпалиссиа́да (ru) f (ljapalissiáda)
• Serbo-Croatian: truizam (sh)
• Spanish: obviedad (es) f, (colloq.) perogrullada (es) f, (less common) truismo m
• Turkish: apaçık gerçek
• Welsh: gwireb f

banality or cliché

• Bulgarian: баналност (bg) f (banalnost)
• Catalan: banalitat f, lloc comú m, tòpic (ca) m, clixé m
• Czech: banalita (cs) f, klišé (cs) n, otřepaná pravda f
• Finnish: latteus (fi), klisee (fi)
• German: Banalität (de) f, Klischee (de) n, Floskel (de) f, Plattitüde (de) f, Gemeinplatz (de) m, Allgemeinplatz (de) m
• Greek: κοινοτυπία (el) f (koinotypía)
• Italian: banalità (it) f, clichè m, luogo comune (it) m, tautologia (it) f
• Romanian: banalitate (ro) f
• Russian: бана́льность (ru) f (banálʹnostʹ), клише́ (ru) n (klišé)
• Serbo-Croatian: truizam (sh) m
• Spanish: banalidad (es) f, lugar común m, tópico (es) m, cliché (es) m
• Turkish: banal ya da klişe

Anagrams

• murtis

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French truisme.

Noun

truism n (plural truisme)

1. truism

Declension

Declension of truism

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) truism	truismul	(niște) truisme	truismele
genitive/dative	(unui) truism	truismului	(unor) truisme	truismelor
vocative	truismule		truismelor