Word Meaning

Meaning of "axiom" and the crossword clue

- A recognised truth
- Accepted principle
- Adage
- An adage
- Aphorism
- Established principle
- Fundamental truth
- In anticlimax, I omitted fundamental truth
- Maxim
- Maxim about circle? Don’t start!
- Saying
- Self-evident truth
- Wise saying
- A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."
- An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.