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.
Paradox. paradox is a true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies logic or intuition. The term is also used for an apparent contradiction that actually expresses a non-dual truth such as two true sentences which put together seem incompatible as both being true.