0 a statement that is so obviously true that it is almost not worth saying: --
1 a statement that is so obvious or said so often that its truth is not questioned: --
It’s a truism that preventing disease is much better than curing it.
That there are winners in the process of economic development is a truism.
His book is testament to the truism that great research is the prerequisite for great historical writing.
A third broad perspective has certainly not become a truism among psychologists.
In this careful empirical study she has refuted some of the most negative truisms repeated about endowments.
And if the morality of right- and wrongdoing does not exhaust morality, the claim that rightness is law's first virtue is a truism.
Here the truism applies that what is legal is not necessarily ethical.
Medieval merchants marvelled in much money + a universal truism.
All the more forcibly, therefore, she makes obvious the benefits of an approach that can dismantle easy truisms.
