apothegmnoun [ C ]
/ˈæp.ə.θem//ˈæp.ə.θem/formal UK also apophthegma short clever saying that is intended to express a general truth:
We are all familiar with Tolstoy's apothegm: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Synonym
aphorism
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Reality and truth
- a slice of life idiom
- actuality
- authenticity
- fact
- genuine
- home truth
- immediacy
- McCoy
- practice
- real life
- slice
- the genuine article idiom
- the real McCoy
- the real thing 1
- the real world 2
- truism
- truth will out idiom
- veracity
- verisimilitude
- verity
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