apodictic

Meaning

Adjective

• Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
• Being a style of argument in which a person presents their reasoning as categorically true, even if it is not necessarily so.
• Absolute and without explanation, as in a command from God like "Thou shalt not kill!"

Related

Opposite words

• problematic
• assertorical

Origin

• From the Latin apodīcticus, from the Ancient Greek ἀποδεικτικός, from ἀποδείκνυμι. In turn, from ἀπο-, and δεικτικός.