Hypertext Webster Gateway: "truism"
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
truism
n : an obvious truth
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