[ok-si-mawr-on, -mohr-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun, plural -mo·ra [-mawr-uh, -mohr-uh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. Rhetoric. a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”ox·y·mo·ron
(ŏk'sē-môr'ŏn', -mōr'-) Pronunciation Key n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra (-môr'ə, -mōr'ə) or ox·y·mo·rons
A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.
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