'oxymoron' definitions:
Definition of 'oxymoron'
(from WordNet)
noun
Conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
Synonyms of 'oxymoron'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absurdity,
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- antinomy,
- asymmetry,
- crux,
- dilemma,
- disproportion,
- disproportionateness,
- enigma,
- equivocality,
- equivocation,
- Gordian knot,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- heterogeneity,
- hopelessness,
- impossibility,
- impossible,
- impossibleness,
- incoherence,
- incommensurability,
- incompatibility,
- inconceivability,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- inconsonance,
- irony,
- irreconcilability,
- knot,
- knotty point,
- no chance,
- node,
- nodus,
- nonconformability,
- nonconformity,
- nonplus,
- paradox,
- perplexity,
- pons asinorum,
- poser,
- puzzle,
- quandary,
- self-contradiction,
- teaser,
- the impossible,
- unconformability,
- unconformity,
- unimaginability,
- unorthodoxy,
- unthinkability,
- vexed question,
- what cannot be,
- what cannot happen