paradox

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/ˈpæ.ɹəˌdɒks/

noun 5

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(noun.)

ADJ

apparent | central | curious

VERB + PARADOX

pose, present

This situation presents a real paradox because safety rules often make people feel less secure.

explain, resolve

PREP

~ about

There's a real paradox about success: the more you chase it, the harder it becomes to achieve.

~ between

There's a real paradox between what the company claims and what customers actually experience.

~ in

There's a real paradox in trying to save money by buying expensive things.

PHRASES

by a curious paradox

By a curious paradox, she felt lonelier as her circle of friends grew larger.

Definitions

noun

An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.

"This sentence is false" is a paradox.

The active sense of living which we all enjoy, before reflection shatters our instinctive world for us, is self-luminous and suggests no paradoxes.

A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.

It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.

The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully.

A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.

Not having a fashion is a fashion; that's a paradox.

How quaint the ways of Paradox! / At common sense she gaily mocks! / Though counting in the usual way years twenty-one I've been alive, / Yet reck'ning by my natal day, / Yet reck'ning by my natal day, / I am a little boy of five!

A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.

A person or thing having contradictory properties.

He is a paradox; you would not expect him in that political party.

You are a paradox of bitch and angel.

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"This sentence is false" is a paradox.

Wiktionary

The active sense of living which we all enjoy, before reflection shatters our instinctive world for us, is self-luminous and suggests no paradoxes.

Wiktionary

According to one version of an ancient paradox, an Athenian is supposed to say "I am a liar." It is then argued that if the statement is true, then he is telling the truth, and is therefore not a liar

Wiktionary

The paradox of sport is that it bonds as it divides.

Tatoeba · #51633

More haste, less speed is a paradox.

Tatoeba · #73728

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Tatoeba · #880015

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