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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀξιωμᾰτικός (axiōmătikós, “employing logical propositions”), from ἀξίωμα (axíōma, “self-evident principle”) + -ικός (-ikós, “of or pertaining to, -ic”).
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axiomatic (comparative more axiomatic, superlative most axiomatic)
- Self-evident or unquestionable.
1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable.
- 1984, Justice William Brennan, Welsh v. Wisconsin, United States Supreme Court (66 U.S. 740, 748)
- It is axiomatic that the "physical entry of the home is the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed."
- (mathematics) Relating to or containing axioms.
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French axiomatique. Equivalent to axiomă + -atic.
Adjective
axiomatic m or n (feminine singular axiomatică, masculine plural axiomatici, feminine and neuter plural axiomatice)
- axiomatic
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