— oxymoronic /ok'see meuh ron"ik/ , adj.
/ok'si mawr"on, -mohr"-/ , n. , pl. oxymora /-mawr"euh, -mohr"euh/ . Rhet.
a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in "cruel kindness" or "to make haste slowly."
[ 1650-60; oxymorum
oxýmoron, neut. of * oxýmoros sharp-dull, equiv. to oxý ( s ) sharp (see OXY- 1 ) + morós dull (see MORON) ]