aphoristicness
English
Etymology
From aphoristic + -ness.
Noun
aphoristicness (uncountable)
- The state, quality, or condition of being aphoristic
- 1998, Alyssa Wendy Dinega, Exorcising the Beloved: Problems of Gender and Selfhood in Marina Tsvetaeva's Myths of Poetic Genius:
- [ But ] Tsvetaeva was a poet very much of this world, concrete, surpassing the Acmeists in precision of detail, and in aphoristicness and sarcasm surpassing everybody . More like that of a bird than an angel, her voice always knew […]
- 1990, Wendy Rosslyn, The Speech of Unknown Eyes: Akhmatova's Readers on Her Poetry:
- Meditation and aphoristicness, despite their opposite qualities, are able to embody wisdom; 60, although they are unlike each other, they are doubles . The poetics of the new quatrains continue those poetics which were […]
- 2011 November 3, Joseph Brodsky, Less Than One: Selected Essays, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
- On the contrary: Tsvetaeva was a poet very much of this world, concrete, surpassing the Acmeists in precision of detail, and in aphoristicness and sarcasm surpassing everybody. More like that of a bird than an angel, her voice always […]
Synonyms
- aphoristicity
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