Etymology

paradoxography

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Today it means: A type of classical literature dealing with the occurrence of abnormal or inexplicable phenomena of the natural or human world. Full definition →

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From paradox + -o- + -graphy. First use appears c. 1949, in the Oxford Classical Dictionary.

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