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Word | Paradox |
(logic) a self-contradiction; I always lie / A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion / something apparently contradictory in nature; statement that looks false but is actually correct / a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory. / something (such as a situation) that is made up of two opposite things and that seems impossible but is actually true or possible / someone who does two things that seem to be opposite to each other or who has qualities that are opposite / a statement that seems to say two opposite things but that may be true, | |
Usage | ⇒ Richard presents a bit of a paradox, for he is a card carrying member of both the National Rifle Association and the relatively pacifist American Civil Liberties Union. ⇒ It is a paradox that computers need maintenance so often, since they are meant to save people time. ⇒ a potentially serious conflict between quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativity known as the information paradox |
Synonyms | absurdity, inconsistency, enigma, contradiction, incongruity, nonsense, mystery, ambiguity, puzzle, self-contradiction, dilemma, quandary, irony, problem, antinomy, oxymoron, difficulty, equivocation, error, fallacy, |
Antonyms | clumsy, answer, explanation, solution, rough, clownish, maladroit, proposition, axiom, uncouth, |
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