English Dictionary

paradox

/ˈpæɹ.əˌdɒks/

noun

(pathology) is described as a free-floating mass, located inside blood vessels that can travel from one site in the blood stream to another. An embolus can be made up of solid (like a blood clot), liquid (like amniotic fluid), or gas (like air).

The paradox in his argument left everyone confused.

意味（1）

(pathology) is described as a free-floating mass, located inside blood vessels that can travel from one site in the blood stream to another. An embolus can be made up of solid (like a blood clot), liquid (like amniotic fluid), or gas (like air).

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(medicine) is an effect of a chemical substance such as a medical drug, that is opposite to what would usually be expected. An example of a paradoxical reaction is pain caused by a pain relief medication.

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An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.

This sentence is false is a paradox.

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A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.

It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.

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A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.

Not having a fashion is a fashion; that's a paradox.

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A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.

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A person or thing having contradictory properties.

He is a paradox; you would not expect him in that political party.

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An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.

And only by dismantling our preconceptions of age can we be free to understand the paradox: How young are the old?

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(obsolete) A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.

Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner / transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the / force of honesty can translate beauty into his / likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the / time gives it proof.

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(uncountable) The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.

The need for paradox is no doubt rooted deep in the very nature of the use we make of language.

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(uncountable, philosophy) A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.

Thus, like modern disputants, they aimed either to confute the respondent or to land him in paradox.

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(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.

Defiance-based paradox is employed so that the family will actively oppose and deliberately sabotage the prescription.