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paradox
  1. An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa. transl. usage
  2. A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome. usage syn.
  3. A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true. transl.
  4. A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.
  5. A person or thing having contradictory properties. syn. transl.
  6. An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth. usage syn.
  7. (obsolete) A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.
  8. (uncountable) The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
  9. (philosophy) A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
  10. (uncountable, psychotherapy) The practice of giving instructions that are opposed to the therapist's actual intent, with the intention that the client will disobey or be unable to obey. syn.
  11. Synonyms:
  12. Examples:
    1. “It exposes the paradox that Plath's texts cannot be read through biography and cannot be read apart from it.”
      “Yet, in that familiar paradox Freud makes his own, our drives have their own ineluctable logics and rationales.”
      “Director Bob Baker seems to have an innate understanding of the Coward paradox, that wistful vitriol.”
paradoxist
  1. (derogatory) One who holds incorrect or eccentric beliefs; a bad scientist; a crank.
  2. A participant in the art movement of paradoxism.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Sterne anticipated this paradoxist in attributing glassiness to an inferior planet.”
paradoxy
  1. (countable) A paradoxical statement; a paradox.
  2. (uncountable) The state or quality of being paradoxical.
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is faith's very irrationality that attracts her son, paradoxy rather than orthodoxy.”
      “Presberg calls this matrix paradoxy in his Adventures in Paradox, a book that might distress Carroll Johnson.”
paradoxism
  1. An avant-garde movement in the arts etc, based on heavy use of contradictions and paradoxes, founded by F. Smarandache in the 1980s.
paradoxicalness
  1. The state or quality of being paradoxical.
paradoxicality
  1. The quality of being paradoxical.
  2. Examples:
    1. “She was silent at the unconscious rebuke, profoundly stirred by the paradoxicality of the situation.”
paradoxer
  1. Person who comes up with a paradox.
  2. Examples:
    1. “By agreement of all but the purblind and the paradoxer, Shakespeare.”
paradoxology
  1. (obsolete) The use of paradoxes.
paradoxicalities
  1. plural of paradoxicality
paradoxologies
  1. plural of paradoxology
paradoxists
  1. plural of paradoxist
paradoxers
  1. plural of paradoxer
paradoxies
  1. plural of paradoxy
paradoxes
  1. plural of paradox
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The paradoxes of citation and prosopopoeia common to the virtuoso and to the writer are threads that run through chapters six through eight.”
      “Finsler develops his approach to the paradoxes, his attitude towards formalised theories and his defence of Platonism in mathematics.”
      “The paradoxes involved in the notion of an avant-garde tradition are foundational to any attempt to teach experimental writing.”
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