Difference between Epigrammatic and Aphoristic

EPIGRAMMATIC vs APHORISTIC: ADJECTIVE

Of, relating to, or containing aphorisms, maxims or epigrams; gnomic
In the form of, or of the nature of, an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences.
Containing aphorisms or maxims
Terse and witty and like a maxim

Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams.
Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; having the quality of an epigram; antithetical; pointed: as, epigrammatic style or wit.
Dealing in epigrams; speaking or writing in epigram: as, an epigrammatic poet.

Having the character of aphorisms; resembling aphorisms; in the form of an aphorism; stated in short, unconnected sentences; abounding in aphorisms.

Lyrical, Essayistic, Succinct, Allusive, Droll, Declamatory, Gnomic, Sententious, Poetic, Witty, Pithy, Terseness, Apothegmatic, Concise, Aphoristic

Digressive, Lyrical, Poetical, Imagistic, Compendious, Essayistic, Declamatory, Sententious, Poetic, Gnomic, Pithy, Apothegmatic, Axiomatic, Concise, Epigrammatic

Lyrical, Essayistic, Succinct, Allusive, Droll, Declamatory, Gnomic, Sententious, Poetic, Witty, Pithy, Terseness, Apothegmatic, Concise, Aphoristic

Digressive, Lyrical, Poetical, Imagistic, Compendious, Essayistic, Declamatory, Sententious, Poetic, Gnomic, Pithy, Apothegmatic, Axiomatic, Concise, Epigrammatic

Wilde devoted most of the British tour to offer witty descriptions in an epigrammatic style of his personal experiences during his American tour.
The epigrammatic sayings of the Bible are not confined, as we have already seen, to the Book of Proverbs.
As a service to those of you living in USA, things just got a tittle easier when you run epigrammatic on money.
Epigrammatic in nature, the dramatic scenes are frequently brief, with the moral suggested by the dialogue.
George I, he spent most of his life in controversial and devotional writings, which, however, sparkle with epigrammatic wit.
Several cautiously copy out all the particulars for their lesson, whereas others utilize an epigrammatic sketch.
And that brings us back to the epigrammatic phrase "this is a true story.".
ANT: Close, sharp, telling, pregnant, significant, expressive, forcible, epigrammatic.
Handy heterosexuals will have disappeared photographically withe epigrammatic quandary.

In John, also, examples of the aphoristic style, silch as prevails in the synoptical reports of the teaching of Christ, are not wanting.
In eight tiny aphoristic movements, each setting a mood rather than developing a theme or a mood.
She went on talking constantly and saying, in the midst of narrative, things quaint and aphoristic.
Poems such as this affirm that weighty issues can be handled not only efficiently, but delicately, in aphoristic writing.
If aphoristic, it was endlessly so, like a staircase in a dream.
These are aphoristic, both in length and in gesture.
Aphoristic poems are a verbal sleight of hand: minute, almost indecipherable movements generating outsized effects.