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paradoxography

noun
/ˌpæ.ɹə.dɒkˈsɒ.ɡɹə.fi/UK/ˌpɛ.ɹəˌdɑkˈsɑ.ɡɹə.fi/US

Etymology

From paradox + -o- + -graphy. First use appears c. 1949, in the Oxford Classical Dictionary.

  1. derived from παράδοξος
  2. derived from paradoxum
  3. borrowed from paradoxe
  4. formed as paradoxography — “paradox + -o- + -graphy”

Definitions

  1. A type of classical literature dealing with the occurrence of abnormal or inexplicable…

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for paradoxography. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA