Crossword-Solution: AXIOM 5 letters, 256 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Axiom a. 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."
Axiom a. An established principle in some art or science, which,
though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms
of political economy.

We have 256 clues for the answer “AXIOM”

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"A straight line is the shortest distance between two points," for instance. 1 answer
"All right angles are congruent," e.g. 1 answer
"An empty set exists," e.g. 1 answer
"Caveat emptor," for one 1 answer
"Crime does not pay," e.g. 1 answer
"Don't bite the hand that feeds you," e.g. 1 answer
"Good things come to those who wait," e.g. 1 answer
"Less is more," e.g. 1 answer
"Lost time is never found again," e.g. 1 answer
"Lost time is never found again," for one 1 answer
"Power corrupts," e.g. 1 answer
"Practice makes perfect" or "Haste makes waste" 1 answer
Accepted postulate 1 answer
Accepted rule 1 answer
Accepted statement 1 answer
Accepted truth 1 answer
Assumed truth 1 answer
Assumed truth, in logic 1 answer
Assumed truth, in math 1 answer
Assumption in math 1 answer
Basic truth 1 answer
Building block of math 1 answer
Building block of mathematics 1 answer
Established proposition 1 answer
Euclidean statement 1 answer
Fact needing no proof 1 answer
Fundamental math assumption 1 answer
Geometric given 1 answer
Geometric premise 1 answer
Geometric truth 1 answer
Geometry class statement 1 answer
Geometry class subject 1 answer
Geometry postulate 1 answer
Geometry staple 1 answer
Geometry truth 1 answer
Given in philosophy class? 1 answer
Honour a team's first principle 1 answer
If A=B and B=C, then A=C, e.g. 1 answer
If X=Y and Y=Z, then X=Z, e.g. 1 answer
It requires no proof 1 answer
It's accepted as true without proof 1 answer
It's true and you know it! 1 answer
Knowledge base? 1 answer
Logic truth 1 answer
Math class statement 1 answer
Math proposition that needs no proof 1 answer
Mathematical truism 1 answer
Mathematical truth 1 answer
Mathematics principle 1 answer
Obvious truth 1 answer
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Sentences with AXIOM (5)

Hence it came to pass that these two Classes could see no force in the so-called axiom about “Distinction of Sides implying Distinction of Colour;” and when all others had succumbed to the fascinations of corporal decoration, the Priests and the Women alone still remained pure from the pollution of paint.
Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1994
Wentworth saw the handle of the door begin to turn; the door opened and remained slightly ajar, until Felix had delivered himself of the cheerful axiom just quoted.
The Europeans Henry James 1994
Hence it came to pass that these two Classes could see no force in the so-called axiom about "Distinction of Sides implying Distinction of Colour"; and when all others had succumbed to the fascinations of corporal decoration, the Priests and the Women alone still remained pure from the pollution of paint.
Flatland: Edwin A. Abbot 1995
His thoughts, far from being concerned with the real foundation of his creed--this was accepted as an axiom--were occupied with the arguments used against the forms of worship.
The Forged Coupon and Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1995
Nor is the rationality of that axiom far to seek; for a man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of all people the one most variously affected by his surroundings.
The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 2008

Quotes with AXIOM (3)

His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.
Adolfo Bioy Casares The Invention of Morel
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.
Sam Savage Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 299 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).