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Axiomatic vs Symptomatic - What's the difference?

axiomatic | symptomatic |

As adjectives the difference between axiomatic and symptomatic

is that axiomatic is axiomatic while symptomatic is (medicine) (of a disease ) showing symptoms.

axiomatic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Evident without proof or argument.
  • * 1932 , , Brave New World :
    • The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic , self-evident, utterly indisputable.
  • * 1984 , , Welsh v. Wisconsin, United States Supreme Court (66 U.S. 740, 748)
    • It is axiomatic that the "physical entry of the home is the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed."
  • Of or pertaining to an axiom.
  • (informal) Obvious.

    • Synonyms

    * axiomatical * self-evident

    Derived terms

    * axiomatically

    Related terms

    * axiomatize * axiomatization

    symptomatic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * symptomatick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (medicine) (of a disease ) Showing symptoms.
  • Relating to, based on, or constituting a symptom.
    • The city's problems are symptomatic of the crisis that is spreading throughout the country.
  • * Macaulay
    • Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper.

    Antonyms

    * asymptomatic

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