different between paradox vs struggle
paradox
English
Etymology
From Middle French paradoxe, from Latin paradoxum, from Ancient Greek ????????? (parádoxos, “unexpected, strange”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pa??d?ks/
- (US) IPA(key): /?pæ??d?ks/, /?p???d?ks/
Noun
paradox (plural paradoxes)
- An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
- "This sentence is false" is a paradox.
- A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.
- It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.
- 1983 May 21, Ronald Reagan, "Presidential Radio Address",
- 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.
- 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.
- An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
- (obsolete) A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.
- 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond 1957, p. 3
- they contended to make that Maxim, that there is no faith to be held with Infidels, a meere and absurd Paradox [...].
- 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond 1957, p. 3
- (uncountable) The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
- (uncountable, philosophy) A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
- (uncountable, psychotherapy) The practice of giving instructions that are opposed to the therapist's actual intent, with the intention that the client will disobey or be unable to obey.
Usage notes
- (self-contradictory statement): A statement which contradicts itself in this fashion is a paradox; two statements which contradict each other are an antinomy.
- (counterintuitive outcome): This use may be considered incorrect or inexact.
- (unanswerable question): This use may be considered incorrect or inexact.
Synonyms
- (counterintuitive outcome): shocker (informal)
- (person or thing with contradictory properties): juxtaposition, contradiction
- (unanswerable question): puzzle, quandary, riddle, enigma, koan
- (therapy practice): reverse psychology
Derived terms
Translations
References
Czech
Noun
paradox m
- paradox
Derived terms
- paradoxní
- paradoxn?
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French paradoxe, from Middle French paradoxe, from Latin paradoxum, from Ancient Greek ????????? (parádoxos, “unexpected, strange”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pa?.ra??d?ks/
- Hyphenation: pa?ra?dox
Noun
paradox m (plural paradoxen, diminutive paradoxje n)
- paradox
Derived terms
- paradoxaal
- tweelingparadox
Descendants
- Afrikaans: paradoks
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
paradox
- paradoxical
Related terms
- Paradox
- paradoxerweise
- Paradoxie
- Paradoxon
Further reading
- “paradox” in Duden online
Hungarian
Etymology
From German paradox, from Ancient Greek ????????? (parádoxos, “unexpected, strange”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?p?r?doks]
- Hyphenation: pa?ra?dox
- Rhymes: -oks
Adjective
paradox (comparative paradoxabb, superlative legparadoxabb)
- paradoxical (seemingly contradictory but possibly true)
- Synonyms: önellentmondó, képtelen, helytelen
- (rare) paradoxical, awkward, adverse (contrary to common perception)
- Synonyms: szokatlan, meglep?, meghökkent?, visszás, fonák
Declension
References
Further reading
- paradox in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin paradoxum, Ancient Greek ????????? (parádoxos)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [para?doks]
Noun
paradox n (plural paradoxuri)
- paradox
Declension
Derived terms
- paradoxal
Swedish
Noun
paradox c
- paradox
Declension
Related terms
- paradoxal
- skenparadox
paradox From the web:
- what paradox of social injustice is presented
- what paradox means
- what paradoxes are found in sonnet 30
- what paradox lies at the heart of this poem
- what paradox is junior's sister facing
- what paradox game to start with
- what paradox game should i buy
- what's paradox
struggle
English
Alternative forms
- stroggell, strogell (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English struglen, stroglen, strogelen, of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots strugil (“to struggle, grapple, contend”). Perhaps from a variant of *strokelen, *stroukelen (> English stroll), from Middle Dutch struyckelen ("to stumble, trip, falter"; > Modern Dutch struikelen), the frequentative form of Old Dutch *str?kon (“to stumble”), from Proto-Germanic *str?k?n?, *str?k?n? (“to be stiff”), from Proto-Indo-European *strug-, *ster- (“to be stiff; to bristle, strut, stumble, fall”), related to Middle Low German strûkelen ("to stumble"; > Low German strükeln), Old High German str?hh?n, str?hh?n ("to stumble, trip, tumble, go astray"; > German strauchen, straucheln).
Alternative etymology derives the base of struggle from Old Norse strúgr (“arrogance, pride, spitefulness, ill-will”) + -le (frequentative suffix), from Proto-Germanic *str?kaz (“stiff, rigid”), ultimately from the same Proto-Indo-European root above, which would make it cognate with dialectal Swedish strug (“contention, strife, discord”), Norwegian stru (“obstinate, unruly”), Danish struende (“reluctantly”), Scots strug (“difficulty, perplexity, a laborious task”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?str???l/, [?st???l?]
- Hyphenation: strug?gle
- Rhymes: -???l
Noun
struggle (plural struggles)
- A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.
- (figuratively) Strife, contention, great effort.
Derived terms
- class struggle
- power struggle
Translations
Verb
struggle (third-person singular simple present struggles, present participle struggling, simple past and past participle struggled)
- To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
- To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Translations
Anagrams
- gurglets
struggle From the web:
- what struggles did jamestown face
- what struggles did harriet tubman face
- what struggle means
- what struggles do immigrants face
- what struggles did the pilgrims face
- what difficulties did jamestown face
- what problems did jamestown face
- what hardships did jamestown face
you may also like
- paradox vs struggle
- wrought vs struggle
- wrought vs rent
- wrought vs wrung
- wrought vs forging
- wrought vs carved
- wrought vs forge
- dressy vs dapper
- tressy vs dressy
- dressy vs cressy
- dressy vs drossy
- dress vs dressy
- dressy vs dressiness
- stylish vs dressy
- smart vs dressy
- swanky vs dapper
- tony vs swanky
- swanky vs luxurious
- swanky vs arrogant
- swanky vs trendy