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Aphoristic
Aphoristic meaning
Of, relating to, or containing aphorisms, epigrams, or maxims; gnomic.
Synonyms of Aphoristic
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Because Hoffer cultivated an aphoristic style, the unpublished notebooks (dated from 1949 to 1977) contain very significant work.
In Hinduism, sutra denotes a distinct type of literary composition, a compilation of short aphoristic statements.
In the context of elaborating on Pāṇini's aphorisms, he also discusses Kātyāyana 's commentary, which are also aphoristic and sūtra-like; in the later tradition, these were transmitted as embedded in Patañjali's discussion.
Settings of aphoristic poetic utterances, the songs are accompanied by a very large orchestra.
The longer and revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray published in book form in 1891 featured an aphoristic preface—a defence of the artist's rights and of art for art's sake—based in part on his press defences of the novel the previous year.
The text includes 528 aphoristic sutras, about rules of reason, logic, epistemology and metaphysics.