self-contradiction

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: self-con=tra=dic=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

self-contradiction, n. 

 The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

self-contradiction, n. internal inconsistency.

Derivative

self-contradictory adj.

THESAURUS

self-contradiction

aberrancy, aberration, absurdity, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomy, asymmetry, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, disproportion, disproportionateness, distortion, equivocality, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness, error, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, hopelessness, illusion, impossibility, impossible, impossibleness, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, inconceivability, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, irony, irreconcilability, misapplication, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, no chance, nonconformability, nonconformity, oxymoron, paradox, peccancy, perversion, sin, sinfulness, the impossible, unconformability, unconformity, unimaginability, unorthodoxy, unthinkability, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, what cannot be, what cannot happen, wrong, wrongness