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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 reasonableplay

  Familiarity information: ANTINOMY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ANTINOMY (noun)


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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