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ANTINOMY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does antinomy mean?
• ANTINOMY (noun)
The noun ANTINOMY has 1 sense:
1. a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable
Familiarity information: ANTINOMY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("antinomy" is a kind of...):
contradiction; contradiction in terms ((logic) a statement that is necessarily false)
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