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axioms

NOUN

principle

Synonyms

STRONGEST

adage aphorism dictum maxim precept proverb theorem

STRONG

apothegm device fundamental law moral postulate proposition saying truism truth

Antonyms

WEAK

absurdity ambiguity foolishness nonsense paradox

Example Sentences

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But the math professor who’s now working for a math startup did share one of his own axioms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Their mathematics and geometry, built on logical proofs from axioms, remain eternal.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2025

One of the key axioms of politics in our, and any other, era is that nothing lasts forever.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2025

“One of the axioms of the system of international relations is that such a system is intrinsically anarchic.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2023

Even the 2,500-year-old Greek idea of an axiomatic geometry—a few self-evident axioms being assumed, and from them the theorems being derived by logic alone—is not being effectively taught in secondary school.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos