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Gnomic

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings).

    "His birth-place was Colophon, an Ionian city of Asia-Minor; a city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry, and ranking the poet Minmermus amongst its celebrated men."

  2. 2
    Mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise.

    "He always makes gnomic utterances."

  3. 3
    Expressing general truths or aphorisms.

    "gnomic aspect"

Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to or containing gnomes wordnet

Etymology

From French gnomique, ultimately from Ancient Greek γνωμικός (gnōmikós), from γνώμη (gnṓmē, “thought, judgement”), akin to γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “know”). By surface analysis, gnome + -ic.

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