单词 | paradoxicalness |
释义 | paradoxicalnessn. The quality of being paradoxical; paradoxicality. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > paradoxicality or self-contradiction self-repugnance1532 paradox1589 paradoxicalness1668 self-repugnancy1674 militation1778 paradoxy1796 paradoxicality1815 schizophrenia1933 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues iii. 358 The confident Ignorance of the rude and the unexpected Paradoxicalness of the skilfull. 1851 S. F. Baird tr. J. G. Heck Iconogr. Encycl. II. Zool. 105 Of its paradoxicalness, no better proof can be given, than the difficulty which the most experienced systematists have found in determining the proper place and rank of the family among organized beings. 1879 H. Spencer Data of Ethics vi. 77 The seeming paradoxicalness of this statement. 1932 Jrnl. Philos. 29 527 They stand revealed as bare of the least trait of novelty or oddity or mysterious paradoxicalness. 1990 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 11 May The poet Nikolai Gumilev wrote that Khlebnikov's ‘forms are convincing by their absurdity, his ideas by their paradoxicalness’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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