[an.tin.o.my] n, pl -mies [G Antinomie, fr. L antinomia conflict of laws, fr. Gk, fr. anti- + nomos law--more at nimble] (1592) 1: a contradiction between two apparently equally valid principles or between inferences correctly drawn from such principles
2: a fundamental and apparently unresolvable conflict or contradiction "antinomies of beauty and evil, freedom and slavery --Stephen Holden" -- an.ti.nom.ic adj