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What is an oxymoron?

What is an oxymoron? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A figure of speech in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect.
  2. (loosely) A contradiction in terms.
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I would also ask you to keep a concept in mind, even though you might consider it to be an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms.
Are we going to take the narrow view which sees Scottish Opera as an oxymoron, and opera and classical music as not really Scottish?
One day I sat her down to explain to her the word oxymoron and then to describe a magnificent and bucolic world of insults.
What he has written is contemporary history, if the term is not altogether an oxymoron.
The idea of a light of darkness is certainly an oxymoron, certainly a contradiction in terms, and yet we find that among various mystics.
It kinda seems an oxymoron but thinking about it, isn't anarchy just extreme liberalism?

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