What's the difference between antithetical and paradox?

Antithetical


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Products which have antithetical functions such as FSH and inhibin or cystatin and cathepsin L are found in different modes.
  • (2) We describe a 46-year-old white woman with typical clinical features of posttransfusion purpura (PTP) whose serum held a platelet-specific alloantibody reactive with an antigen antithetical to Baka, i.e.
  • (3) This dialectic is defined as the synthesis of the antithetical strategies of Dealing With It and Keeping It in Its Place in which people are able to transcend each strategy and sustain hope.
  • (4) Niemeyer’s buildings are characterised by their levity, playfulness, and curves, which are all antithetical to brutalism.
  • (5) Further understanding of the interactions of the immune system with exocrine products of the male reproductive system may contribute to improvements in reproductive health and to an understanding of the antithetical aspects of the immune response represented by such biological phenomena as insemination, pregnancy and malignancy.
  • (6) These data provide further support for the concept that CRH not only triggers the pituitary-adrenal antiinflammatory cascade, but also functions as an antithetically active local mediator of acute and chronic inflammatory arthritis.
  • (7) Indefinite detention – holding detainees for what is now decades with no trial or even charges of any kind on the horizon – is about as antithetical to American values and the constitution as it gets.
  • (8) Marketing techniques that are used in this buyers' market allow no active patient participation and are therefore antithetical to the tenets of psychotherapy.
  • (9) Photograph: FutureDairy I had imagined the world’s first robotic rotary milking dairy at Camden to be a clinical, mechanical affair, antithetical to the steamy breath, soft underbellies and leisurely bovine sensibilities of the cattle it deals with.
  • (10) Evidence is presented for the antithetical relationship of In-a with a previously unreported high frequency antigen, Salis.
  • (11) That shows that TAM have antithetic activities in the life of neoplasia.
  • (12) A therapeutic emphasis on "inner spirit" is a very long way from the radical feminism Ensler grew up with in the 1960s and 70s, and many activists of that era would consider talk of "doing work on ourselves" fundamentally antithetical to their political project.
  • (13) Some argue that the Malibu model is actually antithetical to sobriety.
  • (14) "However, to label people who hold views different from the government of the country and to label those who criticise the Iranian government as enemies, is unproductive and antithetical to the international treaties to which Iran is a party."
  • (15) The findings suggest that the clinical features are antithetical to the trisomy 9p syndrome.
  • (16) Navigating between their religious and cultural identities these young women – who don’t believe consumerism or fashion is antithetical to their religious beliefs – are driving up the value of the modest fashion industry, and the Muslim pound for that matter.
  • (17) Thus on P815 target cells GL183 MAb has an effect antithetical to that of other stimuli including PHA, anti-CD2 or anti-CD16 MAbs.
  • (18) However, careful examination of the report reveals that the data support conclusions antithetical to those at which the author arrived.
  • (19) the overcoming of suffering through suffering, is contrasted to the antithetical behaviour, i.e.
  • (20) The use of suggestion as a technique is viewed as antithetical to the aims of exploratory psychoanalytic therapy and presents serious problems in the resolution of transference issues when it is used either inadvertently or as a parameter of the therapy.

Paradox


Definition:

  • (n.) A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
  • (2) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
  • (3) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
  • (4) Our findings may hold the key to understanding the apparent paradox that although neuroleptics presumably induce their therapeutic actions in disorders such as Tourette syndrome and schizophrenia as well as their parkinsonian effects by blocking dopamine receptors, this antagonism occurs immediately while behavioral changes often require weeks for maximal development.
  • (5) Urinary output paradoxically increased during the first day following starvation, but fell dramatically thereafter.
  • (6) Transient "paradoxical" increase of ST segment elevation followed by rapid falling was observed in 4 patients.
  • (7) The duration of paradoxical sleep was particularly increased resembling the effects of benzodiazepines.
  • (8) Comparing measurements of base line and 30 and 60% of Pmmax indicated that the degree of asynchrony, paradox, and variation in compartmental contribution were significantly related to the level of the load; significant abnormalities were observed at even 30% of Pmmax, a target pressure that can be sustained indefinitely.
  • (9) Nitroprusside, which is the drug of choice for treating this "paradoxical hypertension," was not readily available.
  • (10) We have attempted to investigate a relationship between the paradoxical GH secretion with the abnormal glucose tolerance test present in some cases of acromegaly.
  • (11) Allen Mathies, president and chief executive officer at Huntington Memorial Hospital, cited a paradoxical side effect stemming from the success of his hospital's geriatric outreach programs.
  • (12) Paradoxical bronchoconstriction was not observed when salbutamol was diluted with water.
  • (13) Similar paradoxes bedevilled all the other chief themes.
  • (14) But like so many of his colleagues in the Trump administration , Spicer has shown us how unconsciousness and stupidity can, however paradoxically, assume a Machiavellian function – how a flagrant example of gross insensitivity and flat-out odiousness can serve as yet another useful and convenient distraction.
  • (15) In addition, despite this overall protective effect, zinc paradoxically increased the glutamate-induced destruction of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase (NADPH-d)-containing neurons, a subpopulation that was shown in the preceding paper (Koh and Choi, 1988) to exhibit resistance to NMDA receptor-mediated neurotoxicity, and vulnerability to non-NMDA receptor-mediated neurotoxicity.
  • (16) Photograph: YouTube Formation is a protest and celebration, concerned with and in love with the very particular paradox of the black American identity and experience.
  • (17) Paradoxical embolus to the right coronary artery was demonstrated premorbidly and at autopsy.
  • (18) A sample of physician-referred chronic insomniacs was randomly allocated to either progressive relaxation, stimulus control, paradoxical intention, placebo or no treatment conditions.
  • (19) There was no difference between paradox and normal hearts in calcium stimulated ATPase activity in the SR.
  • (20) The apparent paradox in these results is correlated with different effects of the two maneuvers on left atrial pressure.

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