paradoxologies

Noun

paradoxology (usually uncountable, plural paradoxologies)

1. (obsolete, usually) The use of paradoxes.
   • the obscurity of the subject or unavoidable paradoxology must often put upon the attemptor[…]1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
2. (usually) The study or contemplation of paradoxes.
   • Although whoever shall indifferently perpend the exceeding difficulty, which either the obscurity of the subject or unavoidable paradoxology must often put upon the attemptor, he will easily discern a work of this nature is not to be performed upon one legg; and should smell of oyle, if duly and...1873, H. E. Robinson, The Atomic Hypothesis from Its Inception Until the Present Time
3. (usually) The embrace of a paradox, especially as it involves matters of faith.
   • This report excites the Medical Tribune to the profound remark that "the use of a sudorific to check sweating may seem paradoxical." If the Tribune and the Lancet could only recognize the existence of a principle in nature under which all disordered actions can be similarly relieved, their patients...1880 February, “Gleanings”, in The Hahnemannian Monthly, volume 2, number 2, page 125