Usually means: Contradictory yet interrelated logical elements.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. paradox: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. paradox: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. paradox: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. paradox: Collins English Dictionary
  5. paradox: Vocabulary.com
  6. Paradox, paradox: Wordnik
  7. paradox: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. paradox: Wiktionary
  9. paradox: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. paradox: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. paradox: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. paradox: Dictionary.com
  13. paradox: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. paradox: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Paradox: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. paradox: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. paradox: Rhymezone
  19. paradox, paradox (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. paradox: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. paradox: Free Dictionary
  22. paradox: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. paradox: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  5. PARADOX: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. paradox: Glossary of research economics
  3. Paradox: Management Dictionary
  4. paradox: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paradox, paradox: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Paradox, paradox: CCI Computer
  3. Paradox: Cybernetics and Systems
  4. Paradox: Database Glossary
  5. Technopedia (No longer online)
  6. Paradox (database), paradox: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. paradox: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. paradox: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  3. paradox: A Word A Day

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Paradox: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Paradox: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)
  5. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)
  6. paradox: Evolution Glossary
  7. paradox: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paradox: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
noun:  A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.
noun:  A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.
noun:  A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.
noun:  A person or thing having contradictory properties.
noun:  An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
noun:  (obsolete) A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.
noun:  (uncountable) The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
noun:  (uncountable, philosophy) A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
noun:  (countable, uncountable, psychotherapy) The practice of giving instructions that are opposed to the therapist's actual intent, with the intention that the client will disobey or be unable to obey.

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