paradox – English noun declension

English noun forms of paradox

Noun: paradox
Singularparadox
Pluralparadoxes

Sample Sentences

  • "This sentence is false" is a paradox.
  • The active sense of living which we all enjoy, before reflection shatters our instinctive world for us, is self-luminous and suggests no paradoxes. [1909, William James, A pluralistic universe. Hibbert lectures, page 347:]
  • According to one version of an ancient paradox, an Athenian is supposed to say "I am a liar." It is then argued that if the statement is true, then he is telling the truth, and is therefore not a liar […] [1962, Abraham Wolf, Textbook of Logic, page 255:]
  • It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.
  • The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. [1983 May 21, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address:]
  • Not having a fashion is a fashion; that's a paradox.
  • How quaint the ways of Paradox! / At common sense she gaily mocks! / Though counting in the usual way years twenty-one I've been alive, / Yet reck'ning by my natal day, / Yet reck'ning by my natal day, / I am a little boy of five! [1879, W. S. Gilbert, “The Pirates of Penzance”, in The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, published 1941:]
  • He is a paradox; you would not expect him in that political party.
  • You are a paradox of bitch and angel. [1999, Virginia Henley, A Year and a Day, →ISBN, page 315:]
  • And only by dismantling our preconceptions of age can we be free to understand the paradox: How young are the old? [1994, James Joseph Pirkl, Transgenerational Design, →ISBN, page 3:]
  • Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner / transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the / force of honesty can translate beauty into his / likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the / time gives it proof. [1594, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act III:]
  • they contended to make that Maxim, that there is no faith to be held with Infidels, a meere and absurd Paradox [...]. [1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond, published 1957, page 3:]
  • The need for paradox is no doubt rooted deep in the very nature of the use we make of language. [1906, Richard Holt Hutton, Brief Literary Criticisms, page 40:]
  • Thus, like modern disputants, they aimed either to confute the respondent or to land him in paradox. [1866, Edward Poste, Aristotle on Fallacies, Or, The Sophistici Elenchi, translation of original by Aristotle, page 43:]
  • Defiance-based paradox is employed so that the family will actively oppose and deliberately sabotage the prescription. [1988, Martin Lakin, Ethical Issues in the Psychotherapies, →ISBN, page 103:]

Etymology

From Middle French paradoxe, from Latin paradoxum, from Ancient Greek παράδοξος (parádoxos, “unexpected, strange”). See: Latin Nouns 'paradoxum'.

Verbs referencing "paradox"

Finnish Nouns paradoksi.