Proverb vs Axiom - What's the difference?
proverb | axiom |
A phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations.
A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.
* Bible, John xvi. 29
A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 37
A drama exemplifying a proverb.
To write or utter proverbs.
To name in, or as, a proverb.
* 1671 , John Milton, Samson Agonistes , lines 203-205:
To provide with a proverb.
* Shakespeare
(en noun); also axiomata (though, becoming less common and sometimes considered archaic)
(philosophy) A seemingly which cannot actually be proved or disproved.
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(mathematics, logic, proof theory) A fundamental of theorems. Examples: "Through a pair of distinct points there passes exactly one straight line", "All right angles are congruent".
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An established principle in some artistic practice or science that is universally received.
As nouns the difference between proverb and axiom
is that proverb is a phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations while axiom is a seemingly {{l/en|self-evident}} or necessary {{l/en|truth}} which is based on {{l/en|assumption}}; a {{l/en|principle}} or {{l/en|proposition}} which cannot actually be proved or disproved.As a verb proverb
is to write or utter proverbs.proverb
English
(wikipedia proverb)Noun
(en noun)- His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb .
- Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb , and a by word, among all nations.
Synonyms
* (phrase expressing a basic truth) adage, apothegm, byword, maxim, paroemia, saw, saying, sententia * See alsoDerived terms
* proverbial * proverbiology * proverbs hunt in pairsVerb
(en verb)- Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool / In every street, do they not say, "How well / Are come upon him his deserts?"
- I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.
See also
* ----axiom
English
(wikipedia axiom)Noun
- The axioms read as follows. For every composable pair f'' and ''g'' the composite goes from the domain of ''g'' to the codomain of ''f''. For each object ''A'' the identity arrow goes from ''A'' to ''A . Composing any arrow with an identity arrow (supposing that the two are composable) gives the original arrow. And composition is associative.
- The axioms of political economy cannot be considered absolute truths.
