aphorism• He developed an aphorism, New York is over-eager to get rich.• Sounds like an aphorism from some ancientsage, and so it is.• But good aphorisms do not have to be meaningful in a strictsense.• Refusing to build a system or to allow his philosophy to be systematized, he writes in aphorisms.• These speeches had to be rich in literaryillusion and ruminativeaphorism.• Perhaps the same aphorism could be said of our body.
Originaphorism
(1500-1600)Frenchaphorisme, from Late Latin, from Greekaphorismos“definition, aphorism”, from aphorizein“to define”