different between paradoxicality vs paradoxical
paradoxicality
English
Etymology
paradoxical +? -ity
Noun
paradoxicality (usually uncountable, plural paradoxicalities)
- The quality of being paradoxical.
Translations
paradoxicality From the web:
- what does paradoxically mean
- what is paradoxically mean
- what is paradoxically
- what does the word paradoxically mean
paradoxical
English
Etymology
paradox +? -ical
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pæ???d?ks?k?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p????d??ks?k?l/
- Hyphenation: pa?ra?dox?ic?al
Adjective
paradoxical (comparative more paradoxical, superlative most paradoxical)
- Having self-contradictory properties.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, book II, ch 2
- It is the ambiguity of language only which can make this proposition appear either doubtful or paradoxical. When properly explained and understood, it is almost self-evident.
- 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book 2, ch 4
- It sounds paradoxical, but I am inclined to think that the weakness and insanity of the curate warned me, braced me, and kept me a sane man.
- 1933, H. P. Lovecraft & Hazel Heald, Out of the Aeons
- It was tightly fitted with a cap of the same substance, and bore engraved figurings of an evidently decorative and possibly symbolic nature - conventional designs which seemed to follow a peculiarly alien, paradoxical, and doubtfully describable system of geometry.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, book II, ch 2
Synonyms
- (having self-contradictory properties): oxymoronic, self-contradictory
Antonyms
- (having self-contradictory properties): self-consistent, self-evident
Related terms
- paradox
- paradoxicality
- paradoxically
Translations
paradoxical From the web:
- what paradoxically means
- what's paradoxical sleep
- what's paradoxical bronchospasm
- what paradoxical chest movement
- what paradoxical aciduria
- what's paradoxical anxiety
- what's paradoxical septal motion
- what paradoxical pulse
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