Antinomic

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Exhibiting or pertaining to antinomy; contradictory.

    "Their reasoning, the judge wrote, was that it would be antinomic for the F.B.I., charged with fighting crime, to employ as an informer a murderer as vicious and prolific as Greg Scarpa."

Example

More examples

"Islam is absolutely antinomic to freedom of worship."

Etymology

From antinomy + -ic.

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