paradox · noun
Sens et exemples
Une situation ou une idée qui paraît contradictoire mais peut néanmoins être vraie.
The paradox is that giving the team fewer instructions sometimes allows it to produce more consistent work.
She explored the paradox of feeling lonely in a place where privacy was almost impossible.
One of the project's central paradoxes was that greater freedom seemed to require clearer shared rules.
The apparent paradox disappeared when we distinguished between the amount of information and the quality of understanding.
Formes
- paradox singular
- paradoxes plural