The aphorism is, how to say it?, the champagne of melancholia; each short statement encapsulates years of disillusionment distilled in a moment of intoxication.
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Aphorism
//ˈæf.ə.ɹɪ.zəm//
Synonyms for "aphorism" (90 found)
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56 translations across 36 languages.
Amharic
1 entries- ጥቅሶች noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀφορισμός noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Bulgarian
1 entries- афоризъм noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Catalan
1 entries- aforisme noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 格言 noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Czech
2 entries- aforismus noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
- aforizmus noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Danish
1 entries- aforisme noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Dutch
1 entries- aforisme noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Finnish
3 entries- aforismi noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
- ajatelma noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
- mietelause noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
French
1 entries- aphorisme noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
German
1 entries- Aphorismus noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Greek
1 entries- αφορισμός noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Hebrew
1 entries- פתגם noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Hindi
4 entries- अनुभवोक्ति noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
- उक्ति noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
- नीतिवचन noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
- नीतिवाक्य noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Hungarian
1 entries- aforizma noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Icelandic
3 entries- kjarnyrði noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
- orðskviður noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
- spakmæli noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Irish
2 entries- nathán noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
- seanrá noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Italian
1 entries- aforisma noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Japanese
1 entries- 格言 noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Latvian
1 entries- aforisms noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Macedonian
1 entries- афори́зам noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Māori
1 entries- whakataukī noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Norwegian
1 entries- aforisme noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Polish
3 entries- aforyzm noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
- maksyma noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
- sentencja noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Portuguese
1 entries- aforismo noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Romanian
1 entries- aforism noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Russian
1 entries- афори́зм noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- aforizam noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
- афоризам noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Slovene
1 entries- aforizem noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Spanish
1 entries- aforismo noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Swedish
1 entries- aforism noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Thai
1 entries- คำพังเพย noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Turkish
2 entries- aforizm noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
- özdeyiş noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Ukrainian
1 entries- афоризм noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Welsh
1 entries- doethair noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Yiddish
1 entries- אַפֿאָריזם noun (short phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought)
Sample sentences
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As the promoters expected the overall size of the rail market to expand, it demonstrated the aphorism that 'a rising tide lifts all the boats' associated with the belief that improved services benefit all the participants.
Source: wiktionary
But after each of us had inscribed his share (once I robbed my Aegidius for the purpose), our literary union was over; each of us tore his contribution out of the book and “aphorismed” on his own from then on.
Source: wiktionary
He was thoughtful: “Preferences define superiority,” he aphorismed. “As long as preferences are not made godly edicts."
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