"truism" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: truisms [plural]
Etymology: true + -ism Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|true|ism}} true + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun}} truism (plural truisms)
  1. A self-evident or obvious truth. Synonyms: lapalissade, platitude#English:_truism Translations (self-evident or obvious truth): всеизвестен факт (vseizvesten fakt) (Bulgarian), obvietat [feminine] (Catalan), truisme (english: unauthorized) [masculine, uncommon] (Catalan), 陳詞濫調 (Chinese Mandarin), 陈词滥调 (chéncílàndiào) (Chinese Mandarin), samozřejmost [feminine] (Czech), truismus [masculine] (Czech), gemeenplaats [feminine] (Dutch), evidentaĵo (Esperanto), itsestäänselvyys (Finnish), selviö (Finnish), lapalissade [feminine] (French), truisme [masculine] (French), Binsenwahrheit [feminine] (German), Binsenweisheit [feminine] (German), Gemeinplatz [masculine] (German), Truismus [masculine] (German), Binse [feminine] (German), Allgemeinplatz [masculine] (German), κοινοτυπία (koinotypía) [feminine] (Greek), közhely (Hungarian), ovvietà [feminine] (Italian), tautologia [feminine] (Italian), 自明の理 (jimei no ri) (alt: じめいのり) (Japanese), truisme [masculine] (Norwegian), truizm [masculine] (Polish), truísmo [masculine] (Portuguese), truism [neuter] (Romanian), труи́зм (truízm) [masculine] (Russian), трюи́зм (trjuízm) [masculine] (Russian), прописна́я и́стина (propisnája ístina) [feminine] (Russian), ляпалиссиа́да (ljapalissiáda) [feminine] (Russian), truizam (Serbo-Croatian), obviedad [feminine] (Spanish), perogrullada [colloquial, feminine] (Spanish), truismo [masculine, uncommon] (Spanish), apaçık gerçek (Turkish), gwireb [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-truism-en-noun-4em26SjR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ism Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 92 8 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 91 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ism: 82 18 Disambiguation of 'self-evident or obvious truth': 98 2
  2. A banality or cliché. Synonyms: platitude#English:_hackneyed saying, saying Translations (banality or cliché): баналност (banalnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), banalitat [feminine] (Catalan), lloc comú [masculine] (Catalan), tòpic [masculine] (Catalan), clixé [masculine] (Catalan), banalita [feminine] (Czech), klišé [neuter] (Czech), otřepaná pravda [feminine] (Czech), latteus (Finnish), klisee (Finnish), Banalität [feminine] (German), Klischee [neuter] (German), Floskel [feminine] (German), Plattitüde [feminine] (German), Gemeinplatz [masculine] (German), Allgemeinplatz [masculine] (German), κοινοτυπία (koinotypía) [feminine] (Greek), banalità [feminine] (Italian), clichè [masculine] (Italian), luogo comune [masculine] (Italian), tautologia [feminine] (Italian), banalitate [feminine] (Romanian), бана́льность (banálʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), клише́ (klišé) [neuter] (Russian), truizam [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), banalidad [feminine] (Spanish), lugar común [masculine] (Spanish), tópico [masculine] (Spanish), cliché [masculine] (Spanish), banal ya da klişe (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-truism-en-noun-bdat1-Uk Disambiguation of 'banality or cliché': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: trueism [archaic] Derived forms: truismatic

Noun [Romanian]

Etymology: Borrowed from French truisme. Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|ro|fr|truisme|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} French truisme, {{bor+|ro|fr|truisme}} Borrowed from French truisme Head templates: {{ro-noun|n|truisme}} truism n (plural truisme) Inflection templates: {{ro-decl-noun|g=n|gpd=truismelor|gpi=truisme|gsd=truismului|gsi=truism|n=|npd=truismele|npi=truisme|nsd=truismul|nsi=truism|vp=truismelor|vs=truismule}} Forms: truisme [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], truism [accusative, indefinite, nominative, singular], un truism [accusative, indefinite, nominative, singular], truismul [accusative, definite, nominative, singular], truisme [accusative, indefinite, nominative, plural], niște truisme [accusative, indefinite, nominative, plural], truismele [accusative, definite, nominative, plural], truism [dative, genitive, indefinite, singular], unui truism [dative, genitive, indefinite, singular], truismului [dative, definite, genitive, singular], truisme [dative, genitive, indefinite, plural], unor truisme [dative, genitive, indefinite, plural], truismelor [dative, definite, genitive, plural], truismule [singular, vocative], truismelor [plural, vocative]
  1. truism Tags: neuter
    Sense id: en-truism-ro-noun-ten3cDXg Categories (other): Romanian entries with incorrect language header

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          "word": "Binse"
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          "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
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          "alt": "じめいのり",
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          "lang": "Polish",
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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        },
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
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          "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
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            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "труи́зм"
        },
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "trjuízm",
          "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "трюи́зм"
        },
        {
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "propisnája ístina",
          "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "прописна́я и́стина"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ljapalissiáda",
          "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
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          ],
          "word": "ляпалиссиа́да"
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          "word": "truizam"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "obviedad"
        },
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
          "tags": [
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "perogrullada"
        },
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
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          "word": "truismo"
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
          "word": "apaçık gerçek"
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          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "platitude#English:_hackneyed saying"
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "banalnost",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "баналност"
        },
        {
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "banalitat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "lloc comú"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tòpic"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "clixé"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "banalita"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "klišé"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "otřepaná pravda"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "word": "latteus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "word": "klisee"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Banalität"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Klischee"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Floskel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Plattitüde"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Gemeinplatz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Allgemeinplatz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "koinotypía",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "κοινοτυπία"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "banalità"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "clichè"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "luogo comune"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "tautologia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "banalitate"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "banálʹnostʹ",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "бана́льность"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "klišé",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "клише́"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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            "masculine"
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        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
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        "indefinite",
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        "singular"
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        "plural"
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}
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "vseizvesten fakt",
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      "word": "всеизвестен факт"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "obvietat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "english": "unauthorized",
      "lang": "Catalan",
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        "uncommon"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "word": "陳詞濫調"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "word": "陈词滥调"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "samozřejmost"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "truismus"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "word": "evidentaĵo"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "word": "itsestäänselvyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "word": "selviö"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lapalissade"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "truisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Binsenwahrheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Binsenweisheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Gemeinplatz"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Truismus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Binse"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Allgemeinplatz"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "koinotypía",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "κοινοτυπία"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "word": "közhely"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ovvietà"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tautologia"
    },
    {
      "alt": "じめいのり",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jimei no ri",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
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      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "truisme"
    },
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      "code": "no",
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      "note": "(banal, forslitt, selvinnlysende) sannhet",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
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      ]
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "truizm"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "truísmo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "truism"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "truízm",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "труи́зм"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "trjuízm",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "трюи́зм"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "propisnája ístina",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "прописна́я и́стина"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ljapalissiáda",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ляпалиссиа́да"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "word": "truizam"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "obviedad"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perogrullada"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "uncommon"
      ],
      "word": "truismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "word": "apaçık gerçek"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gwireb"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "banalnost",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "баналност"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "banalitat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lloc comú"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tòpic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clixé"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "banalita"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "klišé"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "otřepaná pravda"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "word": "latteus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "word": "klisee"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Banalität"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Klischee"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Floskel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Plattitüde"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Gemeinplatz"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Allgemeinplatz"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "koinotypía",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "κοινοτυπία"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "banalità"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clichè"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "luogo comune"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tautologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "banalitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "banálʹnostʹ",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бана́льность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "klišé",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "клише́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "truizam"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "banalidad"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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