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Apoxia vs Aporia - What's the difference?

apoxia | aporia |

As a noun apoxia

is (medicine) altitude sickness.

As a verb aporia is

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apoxia

English

Noun

(-)
  • (medicine) altitude sickness

    • aporia

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rhetoric) An expression of deliberation with oneself regarding uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed.
  • * 2012 , , ‘Text Messenger’, Literary Review 404:
    • Meanings are superposed in an aporia – not ‘either/or’, but ‘and/and’.
  • (philosophy) An insoluble contradiction in a text's meaning; a logical impasse suggested by a text or speaker.

    • Synonyms

    * impasse, paradox, contradiction

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