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. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996:

   His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

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. Conan Doyle:

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

4. Axiom Space:

   We’re carrying on NASA’s legacy by designing an advanced spacesuit that will allow astronauts to operate safely and effectively on the Moon, axiom Space’s Artemis III spacesuit will be ready to meet the complex challenges of the lunar south pole and help grow our understanding of the Moon in order to enable a long-term presence there.

5. Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis", Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967), pp. 1203-1207.:

   [W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

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