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Vernacular vs Aphoristic - What's the difference?

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Vernacular is a related term of aphoristic.


As adjectives the difference between vernacular and aphoristic

is that vernacular is of or pertaining to everyday language while aphoristic is of, relating to, or containing aphorisms, maxims or epigrams; gnomic.

As a noun vernacular

is the language of a people or a national language.

vernacular

Noun

(en noun)
  • The language of a people or a national language.
  • ''A vernacular of the United States is English.
  • Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary, liturgical, or scientific language.
  • Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
  • Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
  • For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
  • (Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
  • Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular .

    Synonyms

    * (language unique to a group) argot, jargon, slang

    Antonyms

    * (national language) lingua franca

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to everyday language.
  • Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
  • a vernacular disease
  • (architecture) of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported
  • (art) is connected to a collective memory; not imported
  • Synonyms

    * (of everyday language) common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar * (architecture) folk

    aphoristic

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • of, relating to, or containing aphorisms, maxims or epigrams; gnomic
  • The method of the book is aphoristic . — De Quincey.