you just used it in a sentence!
He always contradicts what I say!
A statement that shows to opposite meanings that both cannot be true.
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The politician's speech was a contradiction of everything he said the day before.
The two testimonies in the court trial were in direct contradiction to each other.
The statement was a contradiction in itself.
To say he liked all black people but hated all Africans was a bit of a contradiction.
Your love for contradiction and paradox ricks of an underlying misology
The two testimonies in the court trial were in direct contradiction to each other.
1. immoderately; excessively2. in contradiction of moral or legal standardsso1. she was unduly optimistic
There is no contradiction.
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.
An antithetical sentence is a sentence that expresses two ideas that are opposed on the surface, but that can actually express another idea in it's apparent contradiction. "He was the rudest man I had ever laid eyes on; it was love at first sight."
A sentence that leads to a contradiction. For example: (x + 1)2 > x2 + 2x + 2 If you work through it , you end up with 1 > 2 which is clearly untrue.
An oxymoron is a contradiction that contains irony.