the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The use of paradoxes.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The holding and defending of opinions contrary to those generally prevalent.
Word Usage
"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."