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the word is Oxymoron [ok-si-mawr-on]

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https://www.vappingo.com/word-blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Oxymoron.jpg

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Synonym
metonymy
metaphor
simile
Antonym
reiteration
prolixity
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An oxymoron in my own life would be that although i have terrible social anxiety I still tried out for a commercial job and even though it terrified me, I still did it.

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An example of an oxymoron is "cruel kindness".

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An example of an oxymoron on a book is in Romeo and Juliet when Romeo confronts his love towards Juliet. His emotions are highlighted by phrases like “hating love”, “bright smoke”, “cold fire”, and “sick health”.

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this article is explaining the difference between a paradox and an oxymoron

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A paradox is a logical puzzle that seems to contradict itself. No it isn't. Actually, it is. An oxymoron is a figure of speech - words that seem to cancel each other out, like "working vacation" or "instant classic."

A paradox makes your brain hurt because it seems like something is true and false at the same time. M.C. Escher's "Relativity" is a visual paradox. The floor is the ceiling! Part of the fun of a paradox is figuring out if it really is one. How about this one: A father and son get in a car wreck and the father dies. The son goes to the hospital, but the doctor says, "I can't operate on him. He's my son." Confused? Ha! Not a paradox, though - the doctor is his mom. Here's a paradox by William Wordsworth, "The child is father of the man." Check out the word in action:

"He seemed to absorb the baffling paradoxes of quantum theory with ease." ( Big Science)

"The answer, for Muji, is a neat paradox, like a Zen koan: massive minimalism through perpetual growth." ( New Yorker)

Oh jumbo shrimp of the world, we're not calling you morons. You're oxymorons! The word itself is an oxymoron, a contradiction. It comes from the Greek oxys for "sharp" and moros for "stupid." Sharply stupid. Oxymorons gone mild wild:

"This article proves that good economic news is an oxymoron." ( New York Times)

"The ultimate oxymoron: I was once invited to an agoraphobic convention," he said. ( Washington Post)

Both are contradictions, but a paradox is something to think on, and an oxymoron is a description, enjoyed in the moment then gone.

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Choose Your Words - A paradox is a logical puzzle that seems to contradict itself. No it isn't. Actually, it is. An oxymoron is a figure of speech - words that seem to cancel each other out, like "working vacation" or "instant classic."

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a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction