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noun. The definition of a truism is a statement of an obvious truth. An example of a truism is the statement: A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do..
Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads'). Classified under: Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents. Hypernyms (metonymy is a kind of...):figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense).ubstituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads'). Classified under: Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents. Hypernyms (metonymy is a kind of...):