paradoxicalityn.
/ˌparədɒksᵻˈkalᵻti/, U.S. /ˈˌpɛrəˌdɑksəˈkælədi/ Paradoxical character; the fact or quality of being paradoxical.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > paradoxicality or self-contradiction
self-repugnance1532
paradox1589
paradoxicalness1668
self-repugnancy1674
militation1778
paradoxy1796
paradoxicality1815
schizophrenia1933
1815 J. Bentham Chrestomathia ii. 12 But for the apparent paradoxicality and antisentimentality, instead of economizing, minimizing would, in this case..have been inserted.
1889 Church Times 9 Aug. 720/1 Here comes in Ward's paradoxicality.
1914 Mind 23 137 The apparent immorality and paradoxicality of the conclusion..only arises if you allow your terms to shift their meaning in the course of the reasoning.
1966 Philosophy 41 55 This assertion..becomes a tautology, but it also loses its paradoxicality.
1997 Ethics 108 121 They come to be surrounded by an air of paradoxicality and irrationality, their initial intuitive plausibility nothwithstanding.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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