nounantilogies

• A contradiction in terms or ideas.

  ‘In Hopkins's poetic practice, this is rendered by the frequent use of antilogies to qualify the divine.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘More generally, antilogy names the basic rhetorical theory (propounded by Protagoras) that two contrary arguments may be given about everything.’
  • ‘Accepting this mathematical context produces a semantical change in the meanings of the terms with the result that they no longer stand for classical concepts and are therefore no longer antilogies.’
  • ‘We join tautologies, synonyms, antonyms, and antilogies by the common name oppositi (singular- oppositus) (from the Latin, oppositus = opposite).’
  • ‘He commented, ‘Everybody is building reusable components but everyone is building the same reusable components over and over again, which is a little bit of an antilogy.’’

  Synonyms

  conflict, clash, disagreement, opposition, inconsistency, lack of congruence, incongruity, incongruousness, mismatch, variance