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Noun Concept
Categories: Ambiguity, Rhetorical techniques, Paradoxes, Semantics, Semantics (linguistics)
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oxymoron
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Conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence') WordNet 3.0
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Conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence') WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
An oxymoron is a figure of speech that juxtaposes concepts with opposite meanings within a word or in a phrase that is a self-contradiction. Wikipedia
Rhetorical device involving the use of contradiction. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Rhetorical device that uses an ostensible self-contradiction to illustrate a rhetorical point or to reveal a paradox Wikidata
A figure of speech in which two words with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect. OmegaWiki
IS A
trope
Rhetorical device
HAS KIND
festina lente
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bildspråk
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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oxymoron
Wikipedia
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oxymoron
Wikidata
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oxymoron
OmegaWiki
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oxymoron
Wikipedia Redirections
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Contradictio in terminis, contradiction in terms, Oximoron, Oxy moron, oxymora, Oxymoronic, Oxymoronical, Oxymoronically, Oxymoronicity, Oxymoronicness, oxymorons, Plastic silverware

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