We explain what paradoxically means, the origin of the word and how it is used. Also, examples in sentences.
What does paradoxically mean?
The word paradoxically refers to anything that occurs in a paradoxical way: in an antilogical manner or contrary to traditional logic and “common sense” . If we say, for example, that “paradoxically, the worst-rated candidate in the polls won the elections,” we are saying that this election is surprising because it defies logic, that is, it is contrary to what was expected.
The word paradox, with which “paradoxically” is constructed, is a word that we have inherited from Latin paradoxum and this in turn came from the Greek voices stop (“contrary to” or “opposite to”) and doxo (“opinion” or “belief”). Hence, something paradoxical is something absurd, incompatible with logic and common sense. Paradoxes are also known as antilogies.
A typical example of something paradoxical comes from science fiction films, in which a time traveler can go back to the past and destroy the time machine that has precisely allowed him to travel to the past, thus preventing him from making said trip and, at the same time, at the same time, that can destroy it. This unsolvable situation is a “temporal paradox.”
Likewise, other uses of the word “paradoxically” in a sentence are the following:
- “Today it arrived in the mail, paradoxically the invitation to the party we went to last night.”
- “That man is the most cultured I have ever met, and paradoxically He had no formal education.”
- “Paradoxically “The hungrier a person is, the less food they will fill up with.”
- “The cartoon that criticized the party ended up generating a wave of support, paradoxically ”.
- “Of all the apostles of Jesus of Nazareth, none loved him more, paradoxically than the betrayer of Judas.”
References
- “Paradox” on Wikipedia.
- “Paradox, ha” in the Language Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy.
- “Etymology of Paradox” in the Online Spanish Etymological Dictionary.
- “Paradoxically” in Wiktionary.
