The Collaborative International Dictionary
paradox \par"a*dox\ (p[a^]r"[.a]*d[o^]ks), n.; pl. paradoxes (p[a^]r"[.a]*d[o^]ks*[e^]z). [F. paradoxe, L. paradoxum, fr. Gr. para`doxon; para` beside, beyond, contrary to + dokei^n to think, suppose, imagine. See Para-, and Dogma.] A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.
A gloss there is to color that paradox, and make it
appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable.
--Hooker.
This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it
proof.
--Shak.
Hydrostatic paradox. See under Hydrostatic.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of paradox English)
Usage examples of "paradoxes".
It was obvious Gilchrist knew nothing about the continuum paradoxes or string theory.
I know the paradoxes aren't supposed to let my presence here have any effect on what happens to the contemps, but I couldn't take that chance.
Heinlein’s dazzling story “By His Bootstraps,” which introduced me to the perplexing paradoxes that time travel engenders.
And even they would start to lose track of the changes as the paradoxes mounted.
The usual time-displacement paradoxes had been observed: rabbits popping out of nowhere in the laboratory three days before the start of the experiment, and doing the same thing three days after the experiment, too.
Bombarded with emigrants out of the future, bedeviled by paradoxes, how those ancient ones must have wrinkled their foreheads over these hoppers!
Yet here was another enough like it to suggest that its paradoxes were not unique, might even be common.
Oh, the questions of past paradoxes that could now be answered by this marvelous creature!
The paradoxes and rules of time travel applied to dragons as much as to anything else that existed in the space-time continuum.
It's from a book of mathematical and logical paradoxes: How to Torture Your Mind, edited by Ralph L.
The Wheel and all its harmonious balances and all-healing paradoxes is just another myth of the weak and defeated.
They spoke in symbols and paradoxes, like the real sages, but for a different reason.
And they tried to confuse any independent searcher by drawing more veils and paradoxes across the path.