paradoxology

1. (obsolete) The use of paradoxes.Examples: "the obscurity of the subject or unavoidable paradoxology must often put upon the attemptor[…]"; "Our Smith again indulges in paradoxology. He repudiates laughing at a well-dressed philosopher sprawling in the mud, but says that the most laughable scene he ever saw in his life was the complete overturning of a very large table with all the dinner upon it."; "I am sorry to find you participating in the vulgar error of the reading public, to whom an unusual collocation of words, involving a juxtaposition of antiperistatical ideas, immediately suggests the notion of hyperoxysophistical paradoxology."obsoleteuncountableusually