Socratic irony: ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected.
Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play.
The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context.
An ironic statement.
Of or pertaining to the metal iron.
The food had an irony taste to it.
The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.
An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
A person or thing having contradictory properties.
A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.
A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.
The practice of giving instructions that are opposed to the therapist's actual intent, with the intention that the client will disobey or be unable to obey.