Adjective : contradictory statements. From Dictionary.com.
But his books are shards of autobiography, and his account of faith’s contradictoriness is an account of his own contradictoriness. From Wordnik.com. [The Velvet Reformation] Reference
It is especially important, then, that the discovery of our contradictoriness should be the basis for our sympathy for others unlike us. From Wordnik.com. [naplesnews.com Stories] Reference
The self-contradictoriness is maintained in the English name of "shaking palsy.". From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
You understand their artificiality and their transience, their internal contradictoriness. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping Up with Salman Rushdie] Reference
He sees “contradictoriness” as a quality at the root of Christianity, and he sees that as a strength. From Wordnik.com. [A Flock Divided] Reference
Two stand out; in them, he developed “contradictoriness” into a highly unorthodox approach to leadership. From Wordnik.com. [The Velvet Reformation] Reference
What avails it that Tertullian, with a contradictoriness that was familiar to him, decided that it is at once corporeal, figured, and simple?. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
It is as if the opposites of the world, whose contradictoriness and conflict make all our difficulties and troubles, were melted into unity. From Wordnik.com. [The Nitrous Oxide Philosopher] Reference
No notice was taken of this remark, which was put down to Sarah's contradictoriness, and no one knew how heartily the girl repented of her invitation. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
It also preserves our intuition on contradictoriness, in the form: A and B are contradictories iff, if A is true, B is false, and if A is false, B is true. From Wordnik.com. [Dialetheism] Reference
The Hegelian self-contradictoriness of the British. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
But such is ever the contradictoriness of woman's nature. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools] Reference
But with her strange contradictoriness, she smiled at him. From Wordnik.com. [Raspberry Jam] Reference
And contradictoriness makes the strongest likelihood of all. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
Hegel explains conflicts by the mutual contradictoriness of concepts, 91. From Wordnik.com. [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference
In vain did she puzzle over the apparent contradictoriness of his behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Fairy Book] Reference
But his frank exposure of his own self-contradictoriness appealed subtly to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes] Reference
But he was not without contradictoriness and rebellion even towards his own resolve. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
On account of its seeming contradictoriness, Zedekiah had thought the prophecy untrue. From Wordnik.com. [The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4] Reference
And ever since, they have been manifesting a like contrariness and contradictoriness of character. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools] Reference
The smile of Sir Willoughby waxed ever softer as the shakes of his head increased in contradictoriness. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Though contradictoriness is not folly: a fool is stubborn, but does not know how to contradict himself. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy] Reference
What especially struck Chesterton was the wholesale self-contradictoriness of the literature of agnosticism. From Wordnik.com. [G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study] Reference
In both there was the same apparent contradictoriness -- the combination of utter tenderness and utter ruthlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the World] Reference
A mere common school education is quite sufficient for comprehension of the contradictoriness of these two uses of the word. From Wordnik.com. [A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel] Reference
Such apparent contradictoriness is everywhere in his work, but along with it goes a curious ingenuity and nimbleness of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Among Famous Books] Reference
I venture to hope that there are some Buddhists among my readers who will wish the contradictoriness of his actions explained. From Wordnik.com. [The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana] Reference
But I venture to hope that there are some Buddhists among my readers who will wish the contradictoriness of his actions explained. From Wordnik.com. [The Hoosier Schoolmaster]
I wonder if you have ever been struck by the catholicity -- not to say the self-contradictoriness -- of the constant correspondent. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
It is, in truth, nothing else than this argument reduced to the palpable contradictoriness that lies in it when pushed to extremity. From Wordnik.com. [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference
In this mood she sat down and wrote a long letter to her mother, full of regrets and homesickness, and longing and contradictoriness. From Wordnik.com. [Duffels] Reference
Ritter's looks alone, and still more, a certain abrupt contradictoriness in his way of speaking, seemed to put Liszt into a state in which he was easily irritated. From Wordnik.com. [My Life — Volume 2] Reference
It stirs him up, a bit of contradictoriness. From Wordnik.com. [All Roads Lead to Calvary] Reference
Such is the contradictoriness of human nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Madman and the Pirate] Reference
That’s our new president’s “contradictoriness.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Flock Divided] Reference
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