Enigmatic vs Gnomic - What's the difference?
enigmatic | gnomic |
Pertaining to an enigma.
Mysterious.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic , she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
Defying description.
(variant) Enigmatical.
Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings).
* G. R. Lewes
(of a saying or aphorism) Mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise.
As adjectives the difference between enigmatic and gnomic
is that enigmatic is enigmatic while gnomic is of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings).enigmatic
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Alternative forms
* (archaic) * (obsolete) * enigmatick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)gnomic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- a city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry
- He always makes gnomic utterances.