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Definition of Paradoxy
1. n. A paradoxical statement; a paradox.
Definition of Paradoxy
1. Noun. A paradoxical statement; a paradox. ¹
2. Noun. The state or quality of being paradoxical. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Paradoxy
1. the quality of being paradoxical [n PARADOXIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paradoxy
Literary usage of Paradoxy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lay Sermons by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1852)
"... if undeterred by the contradictory charges of paradoxy from one party and of
adherence to vulgar and old-fashioned prejudices from the other, ..."
2. Revolutionary Essays in Socialist Faith and Fancy by Peter Edward Burrowes (1903)
"MY MORAL paradoxy. What I am not in myself, that I morally am. That is not mine
which is my moral strength. I am an experience of something else. ..."
3. The Sexual life of the child by Albert Moll (1919)
"But we must not describe as sexual paradoxy all manifestations of the sexual life
occurring in early childhood. A reference to the last chapter will show ..."
4. Light Science for Leisure Hours by Richard Anthony Proctor (1883)
"In science, however, paradoxy is more often met with than heterodoxy and as
general opinions are not now formed in science without strong evidence, paradoxy ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"The paradoxy of this dominant idea of modern physics being a mere picture created
by the human mind, disappears when we consider how the same method is ..."
6. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"WHAT WILL BE DONE WITH HIM? DOCTRINAL DESIDERATUM.—Orthodoxy without paradoxy.
AN anyone say P— Will he be sent to the Tower ? \ Will rooms be taken for him ..."
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