Definition of Aphoristic. Meaning of Aphoristic. Synonyms of Aphoristic

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Definition of Aphoristic

Aphoristic
Aphoristic Aph`o*ris"tic, Aphoristical Aph`o*ris"tic*al, a. [Gr. ?.] In the form of, or of the nature of, an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style. The method of the book is aphoristic. --De Quincey.

Meaning of Aphoristic from wikipedia

- applied, such as agriculture, medicine, jurisprudence, and politics. Aphoristic collections, sometimes known as wisdom literature, have a prominent place...
- Blixen (penname Isak Dinesen), the plays of Ludvig Holberg, and the dense, aphoristic poetry of Piet Hein, have earned international recognition, as have the...
- millennia. The ancient Tamil text Tirukkuṟaḷ, despite being a collection of aphoristic teachings on dharma (aram), artha (porul), and kama (inpam),: 453 : 82 ...
- pleasure-oriented faculties of human life. It is a sutra-genre text with terse aphoristic verses that have survived into the modern era with different bhāṣyas (exposition...
- The Davidowitz Museum of Aphoristics is a private literary and art museum; the first and only museum of briefly-expressed thoughts in the world. The museum...
- sutras are a distinct type of literary composition, a compilation of short aphoristic statements. Each sutra is any short rule, like a theorem distilled into...
- after him. His non-fiction writings, most of which are philosophic and aphoristic in nature, spurred the development of many thinkers, including Georg Wilhelm...
- developed into the Vedānta ("end of the Vedas") system. The Vedic Sūtras were aphoristic treatises concerned either with Vedic ritual (Kalpa Vedanga) or customary...
- Schopenhauer. It was probably Lichtenberg (along with Paul Rée) whose aphoristic style of writing contributed to Nietzsche's own use of aphorism. Nietzsche...
- "Kārikā" also refers to any metrical verse or line which explains, in an aphoristic manner, some key idea (usually philosophical). There are Hindu and Buddhist...