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self-contained underwater breathing apparatus |
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self-contradiction
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| self-controlled
| self-convicted
| self-conviction
self-contradiction
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun self-contradiction has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
self-contradiction, n.
The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
self-contradiction, n. internal inconsistency.
Derivative
self-contradictory adj.
THESAURUS
self-contradiction
aberrancy, aberration, absurdity, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomy, asymmetry, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, disproportion, disproportionateness, distortion, equivocality, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness, error, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, hopelessness, illusion, impossibility, impossible, impossibleness, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, inconceivability, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, irony, irreconcilability, misapplication, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, no chance, nonconformability, nonconformity, oxymoron, paradox, peccancy, perversion, sin, sinfulness, the impossible, unconformability, unconformity, unimaginability, unorthodoxy, unthinkability, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, what cannot be, what cannot happen, wrong, wrongness
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