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Idiomatic vs Axiomatic - What's the difference?

idiomatic | axiomatic |

As adjectives the difference between idiomatic and axiomatic

is that idiomatic is pertaining or conforming to the mode of expression characteristic of a language while axiomatic is axiomatic.

idiomatic

English

Alternative forms

* idiomatick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining or conforming to the mode of expression characteristic of a language.
  • Resembling or characteristic of an idiom.
  • Using many idioms.
  • (music) Parts or pieces which are written both within the natural physical limitations of the instrument and human body and, less so or less often, the styles of playing used on specific instruments.
  • Antonyms

    * unidiomatic

    References

    * *

    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