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:This article is about the contradiction in terms. For the punk band, see Oxymoron (band).
An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms. Oxymoron is a Greek term derived from oxy (...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron
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http://maxenurse.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/smoking-clashes/Smoking clashes! (by: Max E Nurse)
Surely that is an oxymoron. Oxymoron - a moron who breathes oxygen! (Incidentally does undefinable have a definition??) On the subjects of Moron’s more about this old news which is new, yet old… In 1956 Harold Macmillan (who later ...
http://confessionsofanoxymoron.blogspot.com/2008/06/its-not-all-about-me.htmlItu0026#39;s Not All About Me... (by: Wendy)
Once in a great while you'll read something that makes you laugh outloud...This was written by my cousin Deb...who's brother, Steve is a big couch potato by the way...It gave me a chuckle...I hope it does you as well. ...
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Definition
3 definitions found for oxymoron:<p>From <a href="Default.aspx?action=dictinfo&query=gcide">The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48</a>:</a><a><pre>Oxymoron Ox`y*mo"ron, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ???, fr. ??? pointedly
foolish; 'oxy`s sharp + mwro`s foolish.] (Rhet.)
A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is
added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.
[1913 Webster]
</pre></p><br /><p>From <a href="Default.aspx?action=dictinfo&query=wn">WordNet (r) 2.0</a>:</a><a><pre>oxymoron
n : conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
[also: <a href="Default.aspx?action=define&dict=*&query=oxymora" class="definition">oxymora</a> (pl)]
</pre></p><br /><p>From <a href="Default.aspx?action=dictinfo&query=moby-thes">Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0</a>:</a><a><pre>54 Moby Thesaurus words for "oxymoron":
Gordian knot, absurdity, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomy,
asymmetry, crux, dilemma, disproportion, disproportionateness,
enigma, equivocality, equivocation, heresy, heterodoxy,
heterogeneity, hopelessness, impossibility, impossible,
impossibleness, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility,
inconceivability, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, irony,
irreconcilability, knot, knotty point, no chance, node, nodus,
nonconformability, nonconformity, nonplus, paradox, perplexity,
pons asinorum, poser, puzzle, quandary, self-contradiction, teaser,
the impossible, unconformability, unconformity, unimaginability,
unorthodoxy, unthinkability, vexed question, what cannot be,
what cannot happen
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Questions & Answers
oxymoron?...?
f**king virgin?
would that be considered an oxymoron or not?
Well yes if you intended "f**cking" to refer to someone who engages in sexual activity. This could also be a pun. :P
But i don't recommend you to give it to your teacher as an example...
So whats the difference between an OXYMORON and a PARADOX?
''oxymoron: a combination of contradictory or incongruous words. Examples: jumbo shrimp, civil war, government intellegence
paradox: one having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases.
So, can an oxymoron not be a paradox?''
Source: This is thanks to Trina in my previous question. Well raised and I would like an answer.
An oxymoron is simply a contradiction in terms, as in the classic oxymoron "military intelligence" as an example. The word comes from the Greek "oxy" (sharp) and "moros" (dull) and is itself an oxymoron.
A paradox is a statement which appears to be a contradiction in terms, for example, "this statement is false", or a situation such as the Grandfather Paradox, whereby the subject goes back in time to kill his own grandfather before his father is conceived, thus preventing his own birth.
So, in a nutshell (if you're still awake and reading this far...), an oxymoron is a type of paradox, rendered in (usually) two words.
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