"truism" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: truisms [plural]
Etymology: From 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)
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  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

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "After a little decent sorrow had been put forth for the late \"severe affliction,\" joined with some weariful truisms about resignation to the will of Providence, the rest of the epistle was filled up with reproofs about her ladyship's extraordinary and improper conduct in setting off without his consent!",
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          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "latteus"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
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          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Plattitüde"
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        {
          "_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",
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          "roman": "banálʹnostʹ",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "бана́льность"
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "klišé",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "клише́"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "sh",
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          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "banalidad"
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "lugar común"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
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          "lang": "Spanish",
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
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          "sense": "banality or cliché",
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            "masculine"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
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          "sense": "banality or cliché",
          "word": "banal ya da klişe"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    }
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}
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    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ism",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "Terms with Welsh translations"
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          "ref": "2018 November 13, Kate Julian, “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "The phrase If something exists, there is porn of it used to be a clever internet meme; now it’s a truism.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "word": "platitude#English:_truism"
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          "ref": "1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Remembrance of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 321:",
          "text": "After a little decent sorrow had been put forth for the late \"severe affliction,\" joined with some weariful truisms about resignation to the will of Providence, the rest of the epistle was filled up with reproofs about her ladyship's extraordinary and improper conduct in setting off without his consent!",
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vseizvesten fakt",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "word": "всеизвестен факт"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "obvietat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "english": "unauthorized",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "uncommon"
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      "word": "truisme"
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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",
      "roman": "chéncílàndiào",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "word": "陈词滥调"
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    {
      "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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      "word": "gemeenplaats"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "word": "evidentaĵo"
    },
    {
      "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",
      "word": "自明の理"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "truisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "note": "(banal, forslitt, selvinnlysende) sannhet",
      "sense": "self-evident or obvious truth",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ]
    },
    {
      "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"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lugar común"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tópico"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cliché"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "banality or cliché",
      "word": "banal ya da klişe"
    }
  ],
  "word": "truism"
}

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{
  "called_from": "translations/609-20230504",
  "msg": "Translation too long compared to word, so it is skipped",
  "path": [
    "truism"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "truism",
  "trace": ""
}

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