Conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence').

Roget 519: unintelligibility; incomprehensibility, imperspicuity^†; inconceivableness, vagueness etc. adj.; obscurity; ambiguity etc. 520; doubtful meaning; uncertainty etc. 475; perplexity etc. (confusion) 59; spinosity^†; obscurum per obscurius [Lat.]; mystification etc. (concealment) 528; latency etc. 526; transcendentalism.    paradox, oxymoron; riddle, enigma, puzzle etc. (secret) 533; diagnus vindice nodus [Lat.]; sealed book; steganography^†, freemasonry.    pons asinorum [Lat.], asses' bridge; high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew; jargon etc. (unmeaning) 517.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: beeldspraak, oxymoron
Pools: oksymoron, antylogia