07108010-n 'conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')';
 
Czech oxymóron
Chinese (simplified) 矛盾语 , 矛盾修饰法
英語 oxymoron
Indonesian oksimoron
Italian ossimoro
日本語 撞着語法
Definitions
英語
conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
日本語
意味が矛盾する語を結合させること（「耳に痛いほどの静けさ」のような）
Relations
Hypernym: trope
Semantic Field: communicationn
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TempoWN: ◁ ▲ ▷ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.511; Future: 0.001)

SentiWN: ▲ ▽ (+0.12 -0.00) MLSentiCon: △ ▼ (+0.00 -0.25)

Langs:
Seen Lemmas: colonisto;
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