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What is an oxymoron?

What is an oxymoron? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A figure of speech in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect.
  2. (loosely) A contradiction in terms.
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The idea of a light of darkness is certainly an oxymoron, certainly a contradiction in terms, and yet we find that among various mystics.
This is, of course, a ridiculous contradiction and probably would qualify as a first-class oxymoron.
I would also ask you to keep a concept in mind, even though you might consider it to be an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms.
One day I sat her down to explain to her the word oxymoron and then to describe a magnificent and bucolic world of insults.
It kinda seems an oxymoron but thinking about it, isn't anarchy just extreme liberalism?
My Mum is a domestic goddess, although I would submit that the phrase is an oxymoron.

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