Truism

Noun

 * 1) A self-evident or obvious truth.
 * 2) A banality or cliché.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:saying

Thesaurus
a priori truth, abstraction, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, banality, brocard, bromide, cliche, commonplace, dictate, dictum, formula, general idea, generalization, generalized proposition, glittering generality, gnome, golden rule, gospel, hackneyed expression, law, lieu commun, locus communis, maxim, moral, platitude, postulate, principium, principle, proposition, prosaicism, prosaism, rubber stamp, rule, self-evident truth, settled principle, shibboleth, sweeping statement, tag, theorem, tired cliche, truth, universal truth, verity

Translations

 * Catalan: obvietat,  truisme
 * Finnish:
 * French: Lapalissade, truisme
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Norwegian:, (banal, forslitt, selvinnlysende)
 * Portuguese: truísmo
 * Serbo-Croatian: truizam
 * Spanish: obviedad, perogrullada,  truismo


 * Catalan: banalitat, lloc comú, tòpic, clixé
 * Finnish: ,


 * Spanish: banalidad, lugar común, ,