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title: "Oxymoron"
description: "Oxymoron is a conjunction of seemingly contradictory notions. It is a combination of two words in ..."
author: "MrsGerrard"
published: "2012-05-13T07:28:36+00:00"
modified: "2012-05-13T07:28:36+00:00"
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# Oxymoron

> Oxymoron is a conjunction of seemingly contradictory notions. It is a combination of two words in ...

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![Oxymoron](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/mrsgerrard/DUuk87JiAyQv9Z1OFJClTg3MRWj0kA.jpg)

Oxymoron **is a conjunction of seemingly contradictory notions*.* It** **is a combination of two words in which the meaning is opposite in sense: *e.g. speaking silence, cold fire, living death*.*** ****“And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true”* *(A.Tennison).*** **

**Trite oxymoron. ***E.g.* *awfully beautiful.*

Close to oxymoron is** paradox** - a statement that is absurd on the surface. *E.g.* *War is peace. The worse - the better.*

If the primary meaning of a qualifying word is changed the stylistic effect of oxymoron is lost. In oxymoron the logical meaning holds fast because there is no true word combination.

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Source: [https://yvision.kz/post/oxymoron-261936](https://yvision.kz/post/oxymoron-261936)