An oxymoron is a contradiction that contains irony.
No. An oxymoron is a literary device. This is a contradiction in terms.
Oxymoron
No. Nor is it a contradiction in terms - which is what most people mean when they say "oxymoron." An oxymoron is a deliberate rhetorical figure.
I guess you could claim one opposite of a tautology is an oxymoron.
Re: the term for a contradiction of words, you are probably thinking of 'oxymoron.'
Religious facts is a contradiction in terms. An oxymoron. (And aptly named.)
oxymoron, oxy= sharp in greek moron=blunt in greek oxymoron=contradiction also noun is a noun :) CK
No it is not. However, I suspect you mean an oxymoron (contradiction of terms); if this is the case, then perhaps it could be.
Oxymoron.
A contradiction is a fact or statement that questions or disproves an existing one. It is a logical conflict or incongruity, or one that cannot be reconciled with another. (A "contradiction in terms" is something that seems to contain self-contradictory elements, as in an oxymoron.) Example : "The crime scene analysis was a direct contradiction of the suspect's version of the events."
Both are contradictions. With an oxymoron, the contradiction is side by side within a sentence (The living dead); whereas with a juxtaposition, the contradiction does NOT occur next to each other within a sentence (the little wart was huge). Another way juxtaposition is described is "to contrast" two things, ideas, people, etc.
No. The word oxygen ( sharp-making) refers to its role in the formation of acids. Oxymoron (sharp-dull ) is a rhetorical figure using contradictory images in a single description, for example "She held her tongue to spare his feelings, a cruel kindnessin the end, since it only prolonged the agonizing death of his hopes."A single word oxymoron is Sophomore or sophomoric, meaning educated and stupid at the same time.What many people call oxymoron is really a mere contradiction in terms. It becomes oxymoron when used as a rhetorical figure.