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say it: PER-uh-dahks
paradox is a noun meaning "(logic) a statement that contradicts itself". It is pronounced /ˈpɛɹəˌdɑks/ — PER-uh-dahks. It carries one recorded sense.
(logic) a statement that contradicts itself
“`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false”
logic
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for paradox come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.