To say that technology changes rapidly is to utter a truism.
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Truism
Synonyms for "truism" (61 found)
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Related words (30)
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7 entriesTranslations
75 translations across 23 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- баналност noun (banality or cliché)
- всеизвестен факт noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Catalan
4 entries- banalitat noun (banality or cliché)
- clixé noun (banality or cliché)
- lloc comú noun (banality or cliché)
- obvietat noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 陳詞濫調 /陈词滥调 noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Czech
4 entries- banalita noun (banality or cliché)
- klišé noun (banality or cliché)
- otřepaná pravda noun (banality or cliché)
- samozřejmost noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Dutch
1 entries- gemeenplaats noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Esperanto
1 entries- evidentaĵo noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Finnish
4 entries- itsestäänselvyys noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
- klisee noun (banality or cliché)
- latteus noun (banality or cliché)
- selviö noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
French
2 entries- lapalissade noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
- truisme noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Galician
4 entries- banalidade noun (banality or cliché)
- obviedade noun (banality or cliché)
- simpleza noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
- trivialidade noun (banality or cliché)
German
4 entries- Allgemeinplatz noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
- Allgemeinplatz noun (banality or cliché)
- Banalität noun (banality or cliché)
- Binse noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Greek
2 entries- κοινοτυπία noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
- κοινοτυπία noun (banality or cliché)
Hungarian
1 entries- közhely noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Italian
4 entries- banalità noun (banality or cliché)
- clichè noun (banality or cliché)
- luogo comune noun (banality or cliché)
- ovvietà noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Japanese
1 entries- 自明の理 noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Norwegian
1 entries- truisme noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Polish
1 entries- truizm noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Portuguese
1 entries- truísmo noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Romanian
2 entries- banalitate noun (banality or cliché)
- truism noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Russian
4 entries- бана́льность noun (banality or cliché)
- клише́ noun (banality or cliché)
- ляпалиссиа́да noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
- прописна́я и́стина noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- truizam noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
- truizam noun (banality or cliché)
Spanish
4 entries- banalidad noun (banality or cliché)
- cliché noun (banality or cliché)
- grullada noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
- lugar común noun (banality or cliché)
Turkish
2 entries- apaçık gerçek noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
- banal ya da klişe noun (banality or cliché)
Welsh
1 entries- gwireb noun (self-evident or obvious truth)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
That's a truism.
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It is a truism that the people who attend a rally for President Trump more than two years before he’s on the ballot again are generally strong supporters of President Trump.
Source: wiktionary
The phrase If something exists, there is porn of it used to be a clever internet meme; now it’s a truism.
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