The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up --flaked up, with rose-water snow.
Definition of PARADOX for Kids. 1. : a statement that seems to say opposite things and yet is perhaps true. 2. : a person or thing having qualities that seem to be opposite.
A paradox is a logical puzzler that contradicts itself in a baffling way. This statement is false is a classic example, known to logicians as the liar's paradox.. Paradoxical statements may seem completely self-contradictory, but they can be used to reveal deeper truths.