truísmo
Portuguese, noun/tɾuˈiz.mu/
truísmo is spelled T-R-U-Í-S-M-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese, the 211,654th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Truísmo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “truism (self-evident or obvious truth)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “verdade evidente por si mesma”.
What does truísmo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetruism (self-evident or obvious truth)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. verdade evidente por si mesma 2. asserção que é verdadeira não devido ao seu conteúdo, mas por sua estrutura lógica ou gramatical 3. redundância semântica
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of truísmo
- truísmos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce truísmo?
- Brazil /tɾuˈiz.mu/
- Brazil /ˈtɾwiz.mu/
- /tɾuˈiʒ.mu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to truísmo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is truísmo in Portuguese?
truísmo appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).