paradox
noun
a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
paradoxology
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a word derived from
paradox.
Example Sentences
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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.
From Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
