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Oxymoron

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Oxymoron"

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Word	Definition
paradoxnoun	An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
antithesisnoun	A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
syllepsisnoun	(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity.
syncrisisnoun	(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which opposite things, people etc. are compared.
xenonymynoun	The juxtaposition of semantically incompatible words.
enantiosemynoun	(semantics) A type of polysemy in which a word or other seme can be read as two opposing senses.
synonymianoun	(rhetoric) The use of two or more synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term. A kind of repetition that adds force.
equivoquenoun	Ambiguity or double meaning.
homoioptotonnoun	(rhetoric, poetry) A rhetorical figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.
autoantonymnoun	(rare) A word that has two opposing meanings.
antistasisnoun	(rhetoric) The repetition of a word in an opposing sense.
juxtapositionnoun	The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
enantiosisnoun	(rhetoric) A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and vice versa; affirmation by contraries.
double meaningnoun	The situation in which a word or phrase has two different, often opposite, meanings. For example, wicked can mean both "good" and "bad".
dissimilenoun	(archaic, rhetoric) Comparison or illustration by contraries.
janus wordnoun	A word that has two contradictory meanings; a contronym.
figura etymologicanoun	A multiword figure of speech in which two or more different words are etymologically related.
hendiadysnoun	(rhetoric) A figure of speech used for emphasis, where two words joined by and are used to express a single complex idea.
mixed metaphornoun	(linguistics) An overreaching, contradictory or incongruous combination of two distinct metaphors, similes or idioms.
antimetabolenoun	(rhetoric) The technique of repeating a phrase while reversing the order of certain elements or its grammatical structure, as a form of juxtaposition.