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Definitions of oxymoron in various dictionaries:
noun - conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
noun - a combination of contradictory or incongruous words
OXYMORON - An oxymoron (usual plural oxymorons, more rarely oxymora) is a rhetorical device that uses an ostensible self-contradiction to illustrate a rhetoric...
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| It's defined as the combination of 2 seemingly contradictory words, like "deafening silence" |
| Appropriately, this word comes from Greek words meaning "sharp" & "dull" |
| "Wise fool" is an example of this 8-letter figure of speech |
| "Deafening silence", for example |
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| A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist. |
| a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. ifaith unfaithful kept him falsely truei ). |
| conjoining contradictory terms (as in deafening silence') |
| two words used together that have, or seem to have, opposite meanings |
| a phrase or statement that seems to say two opposite things, as in "jumbo shrimp" and "agree to disagree" |
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An oxymoron (usual plural oxymorons, more rarely oxymora) is a rhetorical device that uses an ostensible self-contradiction to illustrate a rhetorical point or to reveal a paradox. * A more general meaning of "contradiction in terms" (not necessarily for rhetoric effect) is recorded by the OED for 1902.. * The term is first recorded as latinized Greek oxymrum, in Maurus Servius Honoratus (c. AD 400); it is derived from the Greek oksús "sharp, keen, pointed" and mros "dull, stupid, foolish"; as it were, "sharp-dull", "keenly stupid", or "pointedly foolish". The word oxymoron is autological, i.e. it is itself an example of an oxymoron. The Greek compound word oksýmron, which would correspond to the Latin formation, does not seem to appear in any known Ancient Greek works prior to the formation of the Latin term. |