Paradox синонимы

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• n.

  •
  • mystery,
  • occasion,
  • ambiguity.
  •
  • allegation,
  • avowal,
  • announcement,
  • apology,
  • assurance,
  • apologia,
  • affirmation,
  • error,
  • attestation,
  • mistake,
  • accusation,
  • assertion.

  • absurdity (noun)

  • baloney,
  • bizarreness,
  • ludicrousness,
  • outlandishness,
  • irrationality,
  • incongruity,
  • idiocy,
  • preposterousness,
  • nonsense,
  • inanity,
  • meaninglessness,
  • implausibility,
  • anachronism,
  • silliness,
  • Self-contradiction,
  • folly,
  • eccentricity,
  • impossibility,
  • absurdity,
  • foolishness,
  • contradiction,
  • balderdash,
  • craziness,
  • farce.

  • catch-22 (noun)

  • loselose,
  • lose loses,
  • catch 22,
  • lose lose,
  • lose-loses,
  • loseloses,
  • catch22.

  • communication (noun)

  • paradox.

  • contradiction, puzzle (noun)

  • catch,
  • anomaly,
  • oddity,
  • catch-22,
  • reverse.

  • difficulty (noun)

  • laboriousness,
  • arduousness,
  • strenuousness,
  • tribulation,
  • quandary,
  • painfulness.

  • fallacy (noun)

  • in-validities,
  • quibblings,
  • in-validity,
  • misconstruals,
  • mis calculation,
  • mis take,
  • mis interpretation,
  • pre conception,
  • mis-calculation,
  • mis-calculations,
  • in validity,
  • pre-conceptions,
  • un-truths,
  • in exactness,
  • mis-apprehensions,
  • in exactnesses,
  • mis-takes,
  • mis takes,
  • un-truth,
  • mis-interpretation,
  • inexactnesses,
  • mis-take,
  • mis apprehension,
  • pre-conception,
  • mis apprehensions,
  • un truth,
  • pre conceptions,
  • in validities,
  • un truths,
  • deceptivenesses,
  • mis-apprehension,
  • in-exactnesses,
  • mis-interpretations,
  • non sequiturs,
  • in-exactness,
  • mis calculations,
  • faultinesses,
  • mis interpretations.

  • figure of speech (noun)

  • synecdoche,
  • aposiopesis,
  • oxymora,
  • adumbration,
  • metonymies,
  • manner of speaking,
  • Tropology,
  • apostrophe,
  • alliteration,
  • ellipsis,
  • apostrophes,
  • litotes,
  • turn of phrase,
  • malapropism,
  • Asyndeton,
  • oxymoron,
  • malapropisms,
  • antistrophe,
  • Ellipses,
  • echoism,
  • metonymy,
  • trope,
  • way of speaking,
  • alliterations,
  • communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device,
  • onomatopoeia,
  • tropes,
  • anaphora,
  • onomatopoeias,
  • proteron.

  • inconsistency (noun)

  • dis similarities,
  • dis-parities,
  • dis sonances,
  • in-equalities,
  • dis-agreement,
  • dis proportionatenesses,
  • in consistency,
  • un likenesses,
  • dis proportionateness,
  • dis-agreements,
  • in-equality,
  • dis-similarities,
  • dis-proportion,
  • dis-parity,
  • dis-sonance,
  • dis-proportionateness,
  • un-likeness,
  • dis proportion,
  • dis-proportions,
  • dis-proportionatenesses,
  • in consonance,
  • dis parity,
  • un likeness,
  • dis sonance,
  • in equalities,
  • un-likenesses,
  • in consonances,
  • in-consistency,
  • in-consonance,
  • dis agreement,
  • dis agreements,
  • dis-similarity,
  • in-consonances,
  • inconsonances,
  • dis proportions,
  • in equality,
  • in consistencies,
  • in-consistencies,
  • dis-sonances,
  • dis parities,
  • dis similarity.

  • irony (noun)

  • in congruity,
  • in congruities,
  • in-congruities,
  • sardonicisms,
  • in-congruity.

  • opposite (noun)

  • Antipole,
  • other extreme,
  • Contra,
  • inverses,
  • another adverse,
  • Contraries,
  • Antilogy,
  • other side,
  • antipoles,
  • other side of coin,
  • Antilogies,
  • contras.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • inconsistency,
  • Rara Avis,
  • teasers,
  • invalidity,
  • one for the book,
  • deceptiveness,
  • difficulty,
  • repartee,
  • irony,
  • inexactness,
  • stickler,
  • something else,
  • teaser,
  • opposite,
  • marvel,
  • one for the books,
  • invalidities,
  • Inconsonance,
  • stumpers,
  • sardonicism,
  • faultiness,
  • phenomenon,
  • stumper,
  • elusions,
  • lose-lose,
  • fallacy,
  • non sequitur,
  • spuriousness,
  • speciousness,
  • elusion,
  • misconstrual,
  • figure of speech.

  • phenomenon (noun)

  • one for books,
  • rarae aves,
  • something elses,
  • one for book.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)

  • enigma.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • curiosity,
  • dynamite,
  • conversation piece,
  • red-letter day,
  • curio,
  • apparition,
  • number,
  • tableau,
  • happening,
  • exception,
  • spectacle,
  • sensation,
  • drama,
  • lulu,
  • aberration,
  • fringe,
  • goings on,
  • doozy,
  • carryings-on,
  • cheap thrill,
  • novelty.
  •
  • freak.

  • Other relevant words (noun):

  • disproportion,
  • terra incognita,
  • poser,
  • absurdness,
  • nonplus,
  • disproportionateness,
  • impossibleness,
  • asymmetry,
  • vexed question,
  • secret,
  • Incommensurability,
  • Alogy,
  • disharmony,
  • equivocation,
  • dilemma,
  • puzzle,
  • heresy,
  • conundrum,
  • nonconformity,
  • nodus,
  • question,
  • dichotomy,
  • Pons Asinorum,
  • reversal,
  • Steganography,
  • dissonance,
  • imbecility,
  • disagreement,
  • paradoxical,
  • Stultiloquy,
  • disparity,
  • unintelligibility,
  • discrepancy,
  • problem,
  • Irreconcilability,
  • Unconformity,
  • ignorance,
  • riddle,
  • Stultiloquence,
  • knot,
  • freemasonry,
  • unorthodoxy,
  • heterodoxy,
  • incoherence,
  • bone to pick,
  • equivocality,
  • contradiction in terms,
  • inconceivability,
  • brain-teaser,
  • heterogeneity,
  • Paradoxes,
  • Nugacity,
  • hopelessness,
  • perplexity,
  • maze,
  • node,
  • Incongruence,
  • incompatibility,
  • Antinomy,
  • crux,
  • impossible,
  • ambivalence.

How to use «Paradox» in context?

The English word «paradox» is derived from the ancient Greek words parádoxos (παραδοξία) and doxáxis (δοξαία), meaning «indication against expectation.» A paradox is a statement that appears to be in contradiction with itself, or that leads to a seemingly inexplicable result. A paradox can be a clever rhetorical device, or it can be a telling evidence of a deeper underlying truth.

Paraphrases for Paradox:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    contradictory, dilemma, discrepancy, inconsistency.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    absurdity, contradiction, irony.

Hyponym for Paradox:

• n.

  • communication
    contradiction, contradiction in terms.

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Synonyms:

admonitory,
exemplary,
idealise,
monitory,
prophylactic,
warning,
RETD,
riflery,
twist tie,
fistbump.

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“Paradox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paradox. Accessed 2 May. 2023.