Antonyms for axiom
ˈæk si əmax·iom

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1. axiom

   Both the axiom and the truism are instantly seen to be true, and need no proof; but in an axiom there is progress of thought, while the truism simply says the same thing over again, or says what is too manifest to need saying. The axiom that "things which are equal to the same thing are equal to one another" unfolds in the latter part of the sentence the truth implied in the first part, which might have been overlooked if not stated. In the truism that "a man can do all he is capable of," the former and the latter part of the sentence are simply identical, and the mind is left just where it started. Hence the axiom is valuable and useful, while the truism is weak and flat, unless the form of statement makes it striking or racy, as "all fools are out of their wits." Compare PROVERB.

   Antonyms:
   absurdity, contradiction, demonstration, nonsense, paradox, sophism

   Synonyms:
   truism

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1. axiom

   Antonyms:
   nonsense, absurdity, soliloquy, absurdness

   Synonyms:
   aphorism, truism, apophthegm, maxim

Matched Categories

1. • Logic
   • Proposition

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. maxim, axiomnoun

   a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits

   Synonyms:
   maxim

2. axiomnoun

   (logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident

   Synonyms:
   maxim

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1. axiomnoun

   Synonyms:
   truism, postulate

How to use axiom in a sentence?

1. Conan Doyle:

   It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

2. Michael Lopez-Alegría:

   The Ax-1 mission is very different from what you may have heard of in some of the recent — especially suborbital — missions. We are not space tourists, i think there's an important role for space tourism, but it is not what Axiom is about.

3. David Axelrod:

   It's that old axiom a Chicago alderman once shared with me: 'The higher a monkey climbs the pole, the more you can see his ass,' the better you do in this process, the more scrutiny you get. It's the price of success.

4. Aneurin Bevan:

   It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

5. Michael Lopez-Alegría:

   This mission is very different from what you may have heard of in some of the recent — especially suborbital — missions. We are not space tourists, i think there's an important role for space tourism, but it is not what Axiom is about.

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