The difference between Paradox and Riddle
When used as nouns, paradox means an apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa, whereas riddle means a verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
Riddle is also verb with the meaning: to speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
check bellow for the other definitions of Paradox and Riddle
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Paradox as a noun:
An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
Examples:
"This sentence is false" is a paradox."
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Paradox as a noun:
A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.
Examples:
"It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty."
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Paradox as a noun:
A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.
Examples:
"Not having a fashion is a fashion; that's a paradox."
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Paradox as a noun:
A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.
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Paradox as a noun:
A person or thing having contradictory properties.
Examples:
"He is a paradox; you would not expect him in that political party."
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Paradox as a noun:
An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
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Paradox as a noun (obsolete):
A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.
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Paradox as a noun (uncountable):
The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
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Paradox as a noun (uncountable, philosophy):
A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
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Paradox as a noun (uncountable, psychotherapy):
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.
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Riddle as a noun:
A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
Examples:
"synonyms: enigma conundrum brain-teaser"
"Here's a riddle: It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?"
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Riddle as a noun:
An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
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Riddle as a verb:
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
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Riddle as a verb (transitive):
To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
Examples:
"'Riddle me this."
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Riddle as a noun:
A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
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Riddle as a noun:
A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
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Riddle as a verb:
To put something through a riddle or sieve, to sieve, to sift.
Examples:
"You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road."
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Riddle as a verb:
To fill with holes like a riddle.
Examples:
"The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets."
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Riddle as a verb:
To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
Examples:
"Your argument is riddled with errors."
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Riddle as a noun (obsolete):
A curtain; bed-curtain
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Riddle as a noun (religious):
One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south
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Riddle as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To plait