Premise and Topic

Premise

Premise noun - Something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning.

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Topic and premise are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Topic" instead a noun "Premise".

Nearby Words: premiss, premised, premising

Topic noun - A major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition).

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Premise and topic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Premise" instead a noun "Topic".

Nearby Words: topical, topicality, topically

good	good premise	good topic
exact	exact premise	exact topic
similar	similar premise	similar topic
common	common premise	common topic
Other adjectives: complete, original, popular, actual, entire, real, huge, dark, main, interesting, new, major, silly, general, central, different.

While we're on the topic of Wildstorm, this is essentially the entire premise of Out There.

Source: Town with a Dark Secret
However, the story gets a lot weirder than its premise.Soon, Yoshi, a villain who despises Dark Pit and Lucas, turns out to have been the one that remodeled their beautiful Hot Topic, and wants to make sure that he can't be stopped.

Source: Fanfic / The Hot Topic Krew
Done briefly in a cutaway in Zombieland, where, under the rule that driver of the car gets to choose the music and coversation topic, the pre-teen girl Little Rock puts Wicked on the soundtrack, and tries to explain the premise of Hannah Montana, much to Tallahassee's dismay.

Source: Explaining the Soap

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