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.
That little truism was echoed repeatedly at the summit, most notably by the president himself.
In qualifying heats of the 400m medley she came last. Yet it is a truism that the British love nothing more than a gallant loser. Davies was mobbed by cameras and microphones.
It is a truism in electronics to say products cost less than they used to, and in future will cost less again.
It is a truism, but one which managers forget all too easily, that companies have a lot in common with most species in the natural world.
In its time this was thought to be tremendously influential; it was regarded as a truism that it led directly to the formation of the charity Shelter, even though Des Wilson, who ran Shelter, denies it.
Mr. Gephardt doesn't grasp the implicit truism, that imports match foreign borrowing.
It is a fund-raising truism that capital drives can't be held frequently.