Self-contradiction

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Self-contradiction \Self`-con`tra*dic"tion\, n.
     The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in
     conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two
     members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and
     not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.
     [1913 Webster]



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "self-contradiction":
     aberrancy, aberration, absurdity, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomy,
     asymmetry, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, disproportion,
     disproportionateness, distortion, equivocality, equivocation,
     errancy, erroneousness, error, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness,
     falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, hamartia, heresy,
     heterodoxy, heterogeneity, hopelessness, illusion, impossibility,
     impossible, impossibleness, incoherence, incommensurability,
     incompatibility, inconceivability, incongruity, inconsistency,
     inconsonance, irony, irreconcilability, misapplication,
     misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation,
     misjudgment, no chance, nonconformability, nonconformity, oxymoron,
     paradox, peccancy, perversion, sin, sinfulness, the impossible,
     unconformability, unconformity, unimaginability, unorthodoxy,
     unthinkability, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness,
     what cannot be, what cannot happen, wrong, wrongness