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.
This theme rests on a truism: that, fundamentally, we live our lives together in work, in love, in politics.
It is a truism in technological circles to state that we live in an age of convergence.
It is by now a philosophical truism that true belief does not amount to knowledge.
Such a social history may be more attuned to the relationship between knowledge and power, yet this too is a truism that eludes precise description.
In detail, the result seems to a modern observer to come from a parallel universe in which all the conventional truisms are reversed.
This emphasises the truism that caring for two dependants at the same time puts extra demands on the carer.
This view was almost a truism of the times.
All the more forcibly, therefore, she makes obvious the benefits of an approach that can dismantle easy truisms.