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- Dictionaryparadox/ˈparədɒks/
noun
- 1. a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true: "the uncertainty principle leads to all sorts of paradoxes, like the particles being in two places at once"
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A paradox is a statement or situation that contains two opposite facts or characteristics. Learn more about the meaning, usage, and examples of paradox from the Cambridge Dictionary.
- English (US)
PARADOX meaning: 1. a situation or statement that seems...
- Znaczenie Paradox, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary
PARADOX definicja: 1. a situation or statement that seems...
- Paradox: Malay Translation
PARADOX translate: paradoks. Learn more in the Cambridge...
- Paradox: Thai Translation
PARADOX translate: คำพูดที่ดูเหมือนขัดแย้งกัน. Learn more in...
- Paradox in Spanish
PARADOX translate: paradoja, paradoja. Learn more in the...
- Simplified
PARADOX translate: 自相矛盾的情况;似非而是的说法，悖论. Learn more in the...
- English (US)
A paradox is a statement, situation, or action that seems to go against common sense or logic, but may still be true. Learn the origin, synonyms, examples, and related words of paradox from Merriam-Webster dictionary.
A paradox is a statement that leads to a contradiction or a counterintuitive result. Learn about the common elements of paradoxes, such as self-reference, contradiction and infinite regress, and the different classes of paradoxes, such as veridical, antinomy and sorites.
A paradox is a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth, or a person, thing, or situation displaying an apparently contradictory nature. Learn more about the origin, synonyms, and examples of paradox from Dictionary.com.
noun. /ˈpærədɒks/ /ˈpærədɑːks/ [countable]a person, thing or situation that has two opposite features and therefore seems strange. He was a paradox—a loner who loved to chat to strangers. It is a curious paradox that professional comedians often have unhappy personal lives. Extra Examples. The author tackles one of the deepest paradoxes of life.
A paradox is a logical puzzler that contradicts itself in a baffling way. "This statement is false" is a classic example, known to logicians as "the liar's paradox." Paradoxical statements may seem completely self-contradictory, but they can be used to reveal deeper truths.
You describe a situation as a paradox when it involves two or more facts or qualities which seem to contradict each other. The paradox is that the region's most dynamic economies have the most primitive financial systems.
