gnomic

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings).

   • His birth-place was Colophon, an Ionian city of Asia-Minor; a city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry, and ranking the poet Minmermus amongst its celebrated men.
2. 2

   Mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise.

   • He always makes gnomic utterances.
   • The gnomic belief that the world is conditioned by love is no idle apothegm.
   • In his part gnomic, part mechanic’s style, Mr. Pirsig’s narrator declares that the real world is a seamless continuum of the material and metaphysical.
3. 3

   Expressing general truths or aphorisms.

   • gnomic aspect

The neighborhood

• neighborgnome