self-contradiction
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
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
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