antinomy
noun
1 antinomy
A contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable.
Roget 964:
lawlessness;
illicitness;
breach of law,
violation of law,
infraction of the law;
disobedience
etc.
742;
unconformity
etc.
83.
arbitrariness
etc.
adj.;
antinomy,
violence,
brute force,
despotism,
outlawry.
mob law,
lynch law,
club law,
Lydford law,
martial law,
drumhead law;
coup d'etat [Fr.];
le droit du plus fort [Fr.];
argumentum baculinum [Lat.].
illegality,
informality,
unlawfulness,
illegitimacy,
bar sinister.
trover and conversion [Law];
smuggling,
poaching;
simony.
[person who violates the law]
outlaw,
bad man
etc.
949.
v..
offend against the law;
violate the law,
infringe the law,
break the law;
set the law at defiance,
ride roughshod over,
drive a coach and six through a statute;
ignore the law,
make the law a dead letter,
take the law into one's own hands.
smuggle,
run,
poach.
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Dutch: paradox, antinomie
Polish: antynomizm
Moby thesaurus: ambiguity, ambivalence, asymmetry, disproportion, disproportionateness, equivocality, equivocation, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, irony, irreconcilability, nonconformability, nonconformity, oxymoron, paradox, self-contradiction, unconformability, unconformity, unorthodoxy ... show more.
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