paradigmaticism
a strong and rigid allegiance to a paradigm

paradigmaticisms
plural of paradigmaticism

paradigmaticity
The quality or condition of being paradigmatic.

paradigmaticness
The condition of being paradigmatic

paradigms
plural of paradigm

paradormancy
A temporary dormancy in some plants

paradoses
plural of parados
plural of paradosis

paradosis
religious teaching based on tradition or on the parables of Jesus

paradox
An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.
A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.
A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.
A person or thing having contradictory properties.
An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.
The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
The practice of giving instructions that are opposed to the therapist's actual intent, with the intention that the client will disobey or be unable to obey.

paradoxes
plural of paradox

paradoxicalities
plural of paradoxicality

paradoxicality
The quality of being paradoxical.

paradoxicalness
The state or quality of being paradoxical.

paradoxism
An avant-garde movement in the arts etc, based on heavy use of contradictions and paradoxes, founded by F. Smarandache in the 1980s.

paradoxling
A small paradox.

paradoxlings
plural of paradoxling

paradoxography
A type of classical literature dealing with the occurrence of abnormal or inexplicable phenomena of the natural or human world.

paradoxologies
plural of paradoxology

paradoxology
The use of paradoxes.
The study or contemplation of paradoxes.
The embrace of a paradox, especially as it involves matters of faith.

paradoxy
A paradoxical statement; a paradox.
The state or quality of being paradoxical.

paradun
A kind of fly used in fishing.

paraduns
plural of paradun

paraesthesis
paresthesia

parafango
A mixture of mud and paraffin used in thermotherapy.

parafasciole
A broad zone next to the fasciole

parafascioles
plural of parafasciole

parafascism
Alternative spelling of para-fascism.

parafeminism
A variety of feminism that seeks to better the conditions of women but considers men and women to be fundamentally different.

parafermion
The equivalent of a fermion in any of several parastatistics

parafermions
plural of parafermion

paraffle
An ostentatious display.

parafle
Alternative form of paraffle.

parafles
plural of parafle

paraflight
An instance of paraflying
A parasail

paraflights
plural of paraflight

parafrag
A kind of small bomb dropped with a parachute, and pre-scored to break into one-inch pieces.

parafrags
plural of parafrag

parafunctionality
The quality of being parafunctional.

paragammacism
Inability to produce the sound /g/, gammacism.

paragnath
Alternative form of paragnathus.

paragnathi
plural of paragnathus

paragnaths
plural of paragnath

paragnathus
One of the two lobes forming the lower lip, or metastome, of Crustacea.
One of the small, horny, tooth-like jaws of certain annelids.

paragoge
The addition of a sound, syllable or letter to the end of a word, either through natural development or as a grammatical function.

paragogies
plural of paragogy

paragogue
Alternative form of paragoge.

paragogues
plural of paragogue

paragogy
Alternative form of paragoge.

paragrammatism
The confused or incomplete use of grammatical structures, found in certain forms of speech disturbance.

paragraphization
The act or result of paragraphizing; arrangement into paragraphs.

paragraphlet
A short paragraph.

paragraphlets
plural of paragraphlet

paragraphoi
plural of paragraphos

paragraphos
In Ancient Greek papyri, anything written beside the main text, such as a marginal note or sign to mark the close or beginning of a sentence, or (in a drama) to indicate a change of speaker.

paragravity
artificial gravity

parahallucination
A hallucination caused by damage to the peripheral nervous system.

parahallucinations
plural of parahallucination

parahaplogroup
A paraphyletic haplogroup.

parahaplogroups
plural of parahaplogroup

parahawk
A fictional, hybrid form of snowmobile / paraglider

parahawks
plural of parahawk

paraherquamide
Any of a class of mycotoxins obtained from Penicillium simplicissimum

paraherquamides
plural of paraherquamide

parahistories
plural of parahistory

parahistory
The hypothetical study of historical evidence or artifacts obtained through unconventional means, such as time travel.

parahypnagogia
A state approaching hypnagogia; a trance-like state similar to falling asleep.

parahypnosis
Any of various forms of disordered sleep.

paraimmunoglobulinopathies
plural of paraimmunoglobulinopathy

paraimmunoglobulinopathy
A form of proteinemia in which immunoglobulins are present throughout the bloodstream

parainfluenzavirus
Any of a group of paramyxoviruses that cause parainfluenza.

parainfluenzaviruses
plural of parainfluenzavirus

parajournalism
The deceptive use of journalistic style and presentation to publish falsehoods.

parajump
A jump taken by a parachutist to launch into the air.

parakinesia
Synonym of parakinesis.

parakinesis
The incorporation of a choreic or involuntary movement into a voluntary one
A supposed paranormal phenomenon in which the relatively small force imparted to an object is not sufficient to explain the degree of resulting movement

paralambdacism
Inability to pronounce the letter L, lambdacism.

paralinearity
The state of being paralinear.

paralinguistics
The study of paralanguage.

paralipomenon
Either of the Books of Chronicles in the Old Testament.
An omission, especially one of a book, added later as a supplement.

paraliterature
Literature not thought of as literary, usually including comics, most genre fiction (such as fantasy and sci-fi), and pulp fiction.

parallelarity
parallelism

parallelepiped
A solid figure, having six faces, all parallelograms, all opposite faces being similar and parallel.

parallelepipeds
plural of parallelepiped

parallelisability
Alternative form of parallelizability.

parallelisation
Alternative spelling of parallelization.

parallelisations
plural of parallelisation

parallelism
The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy.
A parallel position; the relation of parallels.
The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, introduced for rhetorical effect.
The doctrine that matter and mind do not causally interact but that physiological events in the brain or body nonetheless occur simultaneously with matching events in the mind.
In antitrust law, the practice of competitors of raising prices by roughly the same amount at roughly the same time, without engaging in a formal agreement to do so.
Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor.
The use of parallel methods in hardware or software, so that several tasks can be performed at the same time.

parallelisms
plural of parallelism

parallelity
The condition of being parallel; parallelism.

parallelizability
The condition of being parallelizable.

parallelization
The act of making things parallel.
The act of making operations work in parallel, particularly in, but not limited to, computing.

parallelizations
plural of parallelization

parallelizer
A process or algorithm that parallelizes code.

parallelizers
plural of parallelizer

parallelness
The quality of being parallel.