What you ask is an oxymoron? Well I'll tell you. The Concise Oxford Dictionary (from 1964) states it as being a "Figure of speech with pointed conjunction of seeming contradictories (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true). In other words, it is a combination of words regularly regarded as opposites, that are used together in everyday life. The root of the word is as follows: Oxymoron, from the Greek
oxys = sharp, and
moros = dull / foolish.

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