n.
Pronunciation: an- ' ti-n ə -m ē
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -mies
Etymology: German Antinomie, from Latin antinomia conflict of laws, from Greek, from anti- + nomos law ― more at NIMBLE
Date: 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 \ ˌ an-ti- ' nä-mik \ adjective