We explain what it means paradoxically, the origin of the word and how it is used. Also, examples in sentences.
What does paradoxically mean?
The word paradoxically refers to anything that occurs paradoxically: antilogically or contrary to the logic traditional and thecommon sense”. If we say, for example, that “paradoxically, the candidate with the lowest rating in the polls won the election”, we are saying that this election is surprising because it defies logic, that is, it is contrary to what was expected.
The word paradox, with which it is built "paradoxically", is a word that we have inherited from the Latin paradoxum and this in turn came from the Greek words stop (“contrary to” or “opposed to”) and dox (“opinion” or “belief”). Hence, something paradoxical is something absurd, incompatible with logic and common sense. Paradoxes are also known as antilogies.
A typical example of something paradoxical comes from the movies of Science fiction, in which a time traveler can go back to the past and destroy the time machine that has just allowed him to travel to the past, thus preventing him from making said trip and, at the same time, destroying it. This unsolvable situation is a “time paradox”.
Likewise, other uses of the word “paradoxically” in a sentence are the following:
- "Paradoxically, the invitation to the party we went to last night arrived in the mail today."
- "That man is the most educated I have ever met, and paradoxically he had no formal education."
- “Paradoxically, the hungrier a person is, the less food they fill up with.”
- "The cartoon that criticized the party ended up generating a wave of support, paradoxically."
- "Of all the apostles of Jesus of Nazareth, none loved him more, paradoxically, than the traitor Judas."