07108010-n 'conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')';
 
Czech oxymorón
Chinese (simplified) 矛盾 修饰法 , 矛盾 语 , 矛盾修饰法 , 逆喻 , 矛盾语
English oxymoron
Indonesian oksimoron
Italian ossimoro
Definitions
Japanese
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）
English
conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
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Hypernym: trope
Semantic Field: communicationn
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