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ox·y·mo·ron    Audio Help   [ok-si-mawr-on, -mohr-] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -mo·ra    Audio Help   [-mawr-uh, -mohr-uh] Pronunciation Key. Rhetoric.
a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”
[Origin: 1650–60; < LL oxymorum < presumed Gk *oxýmōron, neut. of *oxýmōros sharp-dull, equiv. to oxý(s) sharp (see oxy-1) + mōrós dull (see moron)]

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ox·y·mo·ron·ic    Audio Help   [ok-see-muh-ron-ik] Pronunciation Key, adjective
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