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English Dictionary: truism by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
truism
n
  1. an obvious truth
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Truism \Tru"ism\, n. [From {True}.]
      An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is
      pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; --
      opposed to falsism.
  
               Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words. --J.
                                                                              P. Smith.
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