Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The holding and defending of opinions contrary to those generally prevalent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The use of paradoxes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The use of
paradoxes .
Etymologies
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paradox + -ology
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Examples
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I am sorry to find you participating in the vulgar error of the _reading public, _ to whom an unusual collocation of words, involving a juxtaposition of antiperistatical ideas, immediately suggests the notion of hyperoxysophistical paradoxology.
Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 1825
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