paradox
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.