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truism|ˈtruːɪz(ə)m|
Also 8 trueism.
[f. true a. + -ism.]
A self-evident truth, esp. one of slight importance; a statement so obviously true as not to require discussion.
1708Swift Remarks Bk. vii. Wks. 1841 II. 190/2 The title of this chapter [is] a truism. 1757E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (1767) I. 135, I have..often illustrated the latter part of this trueism. 1817Malthus Popul. III. App. 338 Truisms..of the same kind as the assertion that man cannot live without food. 1880L. Stephen Pope ii. 25 Maxims, some of which strike us as palpable truisms.
b. (without article) Truistic statement.
1812Shelley Let. to Eliz. Hitchener 20 Jan., You..tell me truism when you egotize at all. 1861Max Müller Chips (1880) I. xiii. 312 The fear of truism in our modern writers.
Hence truisˈmatic a. (rare—0) = next.
1860Worcester cites Edinb. Rev. |