different between situational vs paradox

English

Etymology

situation +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?tju??e???n?l/, /s?t?u?(w)e???n?l/
• Hyphenation: sit?u?a?tion?al

Adjective

situational (comparative more situational, superlative most situational)

1. Of or pertaining to a particular situation.

Translations

Anagrams

• natalitious

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)

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

   "This sentence is false" is a paradox.
2. 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.

3. A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.

   Not having a fashion is a fashion; that's a paradox.
4. A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.
5. A person or thing having contradictory properties.

   He is a paradox; you would not expect him in that political party.
6. An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
7. (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 [...].

8. (uncountable) The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
9. (uncountable, philosophy) A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
10. (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

1. 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)

1. paradox

Derived terms

• paradoxaal
• tweelingparadox

Descendants

• Afrikaans: paradoks

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

paradox

1. 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)

1. paradoxical (seemingly contradictory but possibly true)

   Synonyms: önellentmondó, képtelen, helytelen

2. (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)

1. paradox

Declension

Derived terms

• paradoxal

Swedish

Noun

paradox c

1. paradox

Declension

Related terms

• paradoxal
• skenparadox