All paradox synonyms

noun paradox

• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• echoism — onomatopoeia.
• asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
• faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
• anaphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word previously used in the same discourse. In the sentence John wrote the essay in the library but Peter did it at home, both did and it are examples of anaphora
• figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
• catch-22 — If you describe a situation as a Catch-22, you mean it is an impossible situation because you cannot do one thing until you do another thing, but you cannot do the second thing until you do the first thing.
• contraries — opposite in nature or character; diametrically or mutually opposed: contrary to fact; contrary propositions.
• misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
• antistrophe — the second of two movements made by a chorus during the performance of a choral ode
• litotes — understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.”.
• inexactness — The characteristic or quality of being inexact; a lack of precision, accuracy, or certainty.
• imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
• alliteration — Alliteration is the use in speech or writing of several words close together which all begin with the same letter or sound.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• enigma — A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.
• arduousness — requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult: an arduous undertaking.
• opposite — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
• contras — (often initial capital letter) a member of a counterrevolutionary guerrilla group in Nicaragua.
• aposiopesis — the device of suddenly breaking off in the middle of a sentence as if unwilling to continue
• fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
• metonymies — a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people.”.
• antilogy — a contradiction in terms
• elusion — The act of eluding.
• metonymy — a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people.”.
• onomatopoeia — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
• contra — against
• malapropism — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
• adumbration — to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
• inconsonance — Lack of consonance or harmony; disagreement.
• apostrophe — An apostrophe is the mark ' when it is written to indicate that one or more letters have been left out of a word, as in 'isn't' and 'we'll'. It is also added to nouns to form possessives, as in 'Mike's car'.
• irony — the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
• laboriousness — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
• ellipsis — The omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues.
• inconsistency — the quality or condition of being inconsistent.
• contradiction — If you describe an aspect of a situation as a contradiction, you mean that it is completely different from other aspects, and so makes the situation confused or difficult to understand.
• antipole — the opposite pole
• anti-strophe — the part of an ancient Greek choral ode answering a previous strophe, sung by the chorus when returning from left to right.
• phenomenon — a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable: to study the phenomena of nature.
• invalidity — invalidism.