Apothegm vs Truism - What's the difference?
apothegm | truism | Related terms |
A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.
* 1665 , , The English Rogue: De?cribed, in the Life of Merington Latroon, A Witty Extravagant, Being a Compleat Hi?tory of the Mo?t Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes , Henry Marsh,
* 1920 ,
* 2008 , , ISBN 978-0-441-01575-7, page 114,
Apothegm is a related term of truism.
As nouns the difference between apothegm and truism
is that apothegm is a short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim while truism is a self-evident or obvious truth.apothegm
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Alternative forms
* apophthegmNoun
(en noun)page 355,
- Every gla?s of wine, or bit almo?t, that I committed to my mouth, ?he u?hered thither with ?ome Apothegm or other: the whole ?eries, indeed, of her di?cour?e, was compo?ed of nothing but rea?on or wit, which made me admire her; which ?he ea?ily under?tood, I perceived by her ?miles, when ?he ob?erved me gaping, as it were, when ?he ?poke, as if I would have eaten up her Words.
- "You are too wonderful!" he would say. "How do you find time for everything?"
- She rejoined with the apophthegm that made the rounds of Riseholme next day.
- "My dear, it is just busy people that have time for everything."
- Which means roughly that business keeps one safe from love—ominous talk when one’s lover is a courtesan. I hoped that it was just another literary conceit I ought to know. (It is, I later learned, an apothegm by .)
