paradox

Examples

• All

• The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be.

  Transference: A Bipolar Love Story (2020)

• Yet despite this diversity, a striking paradox of The Manyoshu is its sense of harmony and unity.

  Academic text (1990)

• For me, the real paradox is why they keep doing it.

• This is the fundamental paradox of time travel.

• Because the great paradox is that connecting with people is the answer.

  Matthew Hussey

• The paradox between free will and destiny.

  The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

• Under these conditions, efforts to avoid the paradox of plenty may well come to naught.

  Academic text (1999)

• In his case, the line between paradox and contradiction becomes more difficult to draw.

  Academic text (2008)

• There is an exquisite paradox here if you look at the big picture.

  Academic text (1991)

• Richard Dawkins has called this the paradox of the Organism.

Synonyms

C

contradiction

vsparadox

117 4.3

A situation where two ideas or statements cannot both be true

is an apparent opposing claim that often surprises or challenges belief

C

contradiction in terms

vsparadox

6 6.8

A statement that says two things that cannot both be true

is an apparent opposing claim that often provokes thought or doubt

S

self-contradiction

vsparadox

1 7.5

A situation when a person's words or beliefs say opposite things

is a wider puzzling case that can challenge accepted views or logic

A

antinomy

vsparadox

• Formal

1 9.9

A conflict between two ideas that both seem true

is a statement or situation that seems to oppose itself and questions logic

Antonyms

C

certainty

• Literature

202 3.4

A strong feeling that something is true or will happen

How Hard

aporia

• Literature

9.9

paradox

99 7.1

contradiction

117 4.3

dilemma

258 4.2

ambiguity

57 6.3

uncertainty

296 4.0

Surface Forms

Etymology