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Janus collapse: (Roman mythology) the Roman god of doorways and passages; is depicted with two faces on opposite sides of his head

doublethink collapse: believing two contradictory ideas at the same time

tergiversation collapse

wordplay collapse

antinomy collapse: a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable

anagram collapse: a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase; read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning

weasel word collapse: an equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertion

halving collapse

palindrome collapse: a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward

acrostic collapse: verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message

dualism collapse: the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil

dichotomy collapse: being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture"

oxymoron collapse: conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')

play on words collapse

paradox collapse: (logic) a statement that contradicts itself; "`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false"

spoonerism collapse: transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words

asymmetry collapse: (mathematics) a lack of symmetry

pairing collapse: the act of grouping things or people in pairs

bifurcation collapse: the act of splitting into two branches; the place where something divides into two branches; a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)

duplicity collapse: acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

self-contradiction collapse: contradicting yourself

double entendre collapse: an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate

pun collapse: a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"; make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning"

doubling collapse: raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff"; increase by a factor of two; "doubling with a computer took no time at all"

irony collapse: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"; a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

malapropism collapse: the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar

ambivalence collapse: mixed feelings or emotions

disproportion collapse: lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something

ambiguity collapse: unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning; an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context

polarity collapse: having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges); "he got the polarity of the battery reversed"; "charges of opposite sign"

heresy collapse: a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion

incompatibility collapse: the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination; the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time; (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)

logogram collapse: a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation; "7 is a logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and `nanatsu' in Japanese"

duplication collapse: the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful"

unorthodoxy collapse: the quality of being unorthodox; any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position

incongruity collapse: the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate

equivocation collapse: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language; intentionally vague or ambiguous

inconsistency collapse: the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts

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