Having self-contradictory properties.

Alternative form of paradoxical

Alternative letter-case form of Fermi paradox

(biology, exobiology) The seeming contradiction, serving as a challenge to believers in the existence of advanced lifeforms throughout the universe, that there is no scientific evidence that extraterrestrial civilizations have tried to visit or communicate with Earth.

(set theory) The paradox that a set defined to contain all sets which do not contain themselves can neither consistently contain itself nor not contain itself.

The observation that the French suffer a relatively low incidence of coronary heart disease, despite having a diet relatively rich in saturated fats.

plural of grandfather paradox

plural of bootstrap paradox

(rare) The statistical and psychological observation that a person is prone to prefer Coca-Cola over Pepsi when they have labels, but prone to prefer Pepsi over Coca-Cola when they are unlabelled.

A time travel paradox in which the consequences of an event in the future travel back in time and cause an event in the past or present, which in turn is among the causes of the first event, forming a causal loop in which each event is caused by the other.