paradoxyn.
/ˈparədɒksi/, U.S. /ˈpɛrəˌdɑksi/ 1. A paradox. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > paradox > [noun]
paradox1569
paradoxy1646
lucus a non lucendo1711
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 361 With industry we decline such paradoxies, and peaceably submit unto their received acceptions. View more context for this quotation
a1930 R. Bridges Poet. Wks. (1936) iv. 684 A paradoxy anent the two natures of Christ.
2. 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
1796 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 2 777 Another well-known passage..stating the paradoxy of the Christian Creed.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Compl. Wks. (1853–8) 258 All I had so long..attempted to convey, free from all semblance of paradoxy, and from all occasion of offence.
a1871 A. De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes (1872) 186 It may be that ignorance had more to do with it than paradoxy.
1933 G. K. Chesterton St. Thomas Aquinas vi. 171 The point is..that paradoxy has become orthodoxy.
1977 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 176 We are not invited to separate Colie's critical universe into two parts: Renaissance paradoxy and its mixing of styles.
1993 MLN 108 795 The imperative of theory thus commands—and this constitutes its profound paradoxy—the abandonment of the uncertain basis of theory in order to seek within a region,..the stable ground of its capacity for truth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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