paradoxologyn.

Brit.

/ˌparədɒkˈsɒlədʒi/, U.S.

/ˈˌpɛrəˌdɑkˈsɑlədʒi/

Forms: 1600s paradoxologie, 1800s– paradoxology.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin paradoxologia; Greek παραδοξολογία.

Etymology: In sense 1 < post-classical Latin paradoxologia love of paradox (a1540) < classical Latin paradoxum paradox n. + -logia -logy comb. form. In sense 2 < ancient Greek παραδοξολογία tale of wonder, marvels < παράδοξον paradox n. + -λογία -logy comb. form. With sense 2 compare earlier paradoxography n., and Hellenistic Greek παραδοξολόγος narrator of marvels. Compare also French paradoxologie treatise on paradoxes (1573 in Middle French in an isolated attestation, subsequently from 1838), comic improvisation (1838), habit of indulging in paradoxes (1842), (in logic) art of using paradoxes (1957 or earlier).

1. The action or habit of indulging in or propounding paradoxes; paradoxicality.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > paradox > [noun] > practice of

paradoxism1593

paradoxology1646

paradoxing1647

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica To Rdr. sig. a4^v Who shall indifferently perpend the exceeding difficulty, which either the obscurity of the subject, or unavoidable paradoxologie must often put upon the Attemptor.

1818 T. L. Peacock Nightmare Abbey viii. 111 I am sorry to find you participating in the vulgar error of the reading public, to whom an unusual collocation of words, involving a juxtaposition of antiperistatical ideas, immediately suggests the notion of hyperoxysophistical paradoxology.

1856 G. F. Collier (title) Reg. v. Palmer, the parodoxology of poisoning.

1902 Athenæum 14 June 746/2 When Cicero accused Cato of political paradoxology.

1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Oct. vii. 43/3 In ‘An Enigmatic Evening with Microwave Cornbread’,..the good doctor..is entertaining colleagues from the Institute for Paradoxology.

2. Paradoxography.

ΚΠ

1997 Amer. Hist. Rev. 102 12 Such literature drew on the encyclopaedic tradition of the ancient world known as paradoxology—the collection of oddities..and on antique notions of portents or omens.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	paradoxology
释义	paradoxologyn. Brit. /ˌparədɒkˈsɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˈˌpɛrəˌdɑkˈsɑlədʒi/ Forms: 1600s paradoxologie, 1800s– paradoxology. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin paradoxologia; Greek παραδοξολογία. Etymology: In sense 1 < post-classical Latin paradoxologia love of paradox (a1540) < classical Latin paradoxum paradox n. + -logia -logy comb. form. In sense 2 < ancient Greek παραδοξολογία tale of wonder, marvels < παράδοξον paradox n. + -λογία -logy comb. form. With sense 2 compare earlier paradoxography n., and Hellenistic Greek παραδοξολόγος narrator of marvels. Compare also French paradoxologie treatise on paradoxes (1573 in Middle French in an isolated attestation, subsequently from 1838), comic improvisation (1838), habit of indulging in paradoxes (1842), (in logic) art of using paradoxes (1957 or earlier). 1. The action or habit of indulging in or propounding paradoxes; paradoxicality. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > paradox > [noun] > practice of paradoxism1593 paradoxology1646 paradoxing1647 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica To Rdr. sig. a4^v Who shall indifferently perpend the exceeding difficulty, which either the obscurity of the subject, or unavoidable paradoxologie must often put upon the Attemptor. 1818 T. L. Peacock Nightmare Abbey viii. 111 I am sorry to find you participating in the vulgar error of the reading public, to whom an unusual collocation of words, involving a juxtaposition of antiperistatical ideas, immediately suggests the notion of hyperoxysophistical paradoxology. 1856 G. F. Collier (title) Reg. v. Palmer, the parodoxology of poisoning. 1902 Athenæum 14 June 746/2 When Cicero accused Cato of political paradoxology. 1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Oct. vii. 43/3 In ‘An Enigmatic Evening with Microwave Cornbread’,..the good doctor..is entertaining colleagues from the Institute for Paradoxology. 2. Paradoxography. ΚΠ 1997 Amer. Hist. Rev. 102 12 Such literature drew on the encyclopaedic tradition of the ancient world known as paradoxology—the collection of oddities..and on antique notions of portents or omens. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1646
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