paradoxology

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
   • Our Smith again indulges in paradoxology. He repudiates laughing at a well-dressed philosopher sprawling in the mud, but says that the most laughable scene he ever saw in his life was the complete overturning of a very large table with all the dinner upon it.1875, William Evans Burton, The Cyclopaedia of Wit and Humor, page xi
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
   • The study of space and times involves a consideration of paradoxology.1951, Frederick Mayer, Essentialism, page 172
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
   • Paradoxology will help our faith to grow stronger by daring to flag up some of the paradoxes about God that challenge us, rather than covering them up.2014, Krish Kandiah, Paradoxology: Why Christianity was never meant to be simple