a statement that is apparently contradictory or absurd and yet might be true
a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true
something, e.g. a person, condition, or act, with seemingly contradictory qualities or phases
a tenet contrary to received opinion
paradoxical /-ʹdoksikl/ adj
paradoxically /-ʹdoksikli/ adv
[via Latin from Greek paradoxon, neuter of paradoxos contrary to expectation, from para-1 + doxa opinion]