aphoristicness

English

Etymology

From aphoristic +‎ -ness.

Noun

aphoristicness (uncountable)

1. 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

Translations

Translations

• Polish: aforystyczność (pl) f