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Synonyms for paradoxes

Grammar : Noun
Spell : par-uh-doks
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpær əˌdɒks

Top 10 synonyms for paradoxes
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Définition of paradoxes

Origin :
  • 1530s, "statement contrary to common belief or expectation," from Middle French paradoxe (14c.) and directly from Latin paradoxum "paradox, statement seemingly absurd yet really true," from Greek paradoxon, noun use of neuter of adjective paradoxos "contrary to expectation, incredible," from para- "contrary to" (see para- (1)) + doxa "opinion," from dokein "to appear, seem, think" (see decent). Meaning "statement that is seemingly self-contradictory yet not illogical or obviously untrue" is from 1560s.
  • noun contradiction, puzzle
Example sentences :
  • The effect of the paradoxes of Zeno extended far beyond the Eleatic circle.
  • Extract from : « Sophist » by Plato
  • A hint has been already given that the paradoxes of Zeno admitted of a higher application.
  • Extract from : « Parmenides » by Plato
  • But they appear to him, as he says in the Philebus also, to be rather truisms than paradoxes.
  • Extract from : « Parmenides » by Plato
  • He is active and able, with nothing wrong about him except his paradoxes.
  • Extract from : « A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) » by Augustus de Morgan
  • How then comes the history of astronomy among the paradoxes?
  • Extract from : « A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) » by Augustus de Morgan
  • Among the essays of Morhof is one on the "Paradoxes of the Senses."
  • Extract from : « Over the Teacups » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • He did much for astronomy, but not much for the Budget of Paradoxes.
  • Extract from : « A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) » by Augustus De Morgan
  • There are two works of his by which he was known, apart from his paradoxes.
  • Extract from : « A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) » by Augustus De Morgan
  • For our faith, as it has been said, is a religion of paradoxes.
  • Extract from : « Robin Tremayne » by Emily Sarah Holt
  • Because his conformation makes him utter nothing but paradoxes.
  • Extract from : « The Bride of the Nile, Complete » by Georg Ebers

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