Axiomatic
WordNet
adjective
(1) Evident without proof or argument
"An axiomatic truth"
"We hold these truths to be self-evident"
(2) Of or relating to or derived from axioms
"Axiomatic physics"
"The postulational method was applied to geometry"- S.S.Stevens
(3) Containing aphorisms or maxims
"Axiomatic wisdom"
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Etymology
From , in turn from
Adjective
- Evident without proof or argument.
- 1932, Aldous Huxley, 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, Justice William Brennan, 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."
- 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World:
- Of or pertaining to an axiom.
- Obvious.