aporia

Borrowed from Latin aporia, from Ancient Greek ἀπορία (aporía), from ἄπορος (áporos, “impassable”), from ἀ- (a-, “a-”) + πόρος (póros, “passage”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈpɔːɹɪə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈpɔɹiə/

aporia (plural aporias)

1. (rhetoric) An expression of deliberation with oneself regarding uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed.
   • 1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 55:

     Aporia oft in doubt and fear will rest,
     And reason with itself what may be best.

   • 2012, Andy Martin, “Text Messenger”, in Literary Review, section 404:

     Meanings are superposed in an aporia – not ‘either/or’, but ‘and/and’.

   • 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 9:

     What they intend sickens and frightens them, and they can never speak of it directly. Instead, wrapped in whispers are ellipses, euphemisms, mumbled aporia followed by throat-clearing and a brisk change of subject.

2. (philosophy, post-structuralism) An insoluble contradiction, especially in a text's meaning; a logical impasse suggested by a text or speaker.

   Synonyms: impasse, paradox, contradiction

   • 2009, Mark Fisher, chapter 3, in Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Zero Books, →ISBN, page 19:

     But Green issues are already a contested zone, already a site where politicization is being fought for. In what follows, I want to stress two other aporias in capitalist realism, which are not yet politicized to anything like the same degree. The first is mental health.

   • 2014 May 27, Alison Flood, quoting Eva Illouz, “Fifty Shades of Grey is really a self-help book, says academic”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     EL James's multimillion selling series of novels ‘encodes the aporias of heterosexual relationships’, according to Professor Eva Illouz[.]

   • 2018, David Auerbach, Bitwise: A Life in Code‎, Vintage, →ISBN:

     Plato believed that the core impulse to philosophizing lies in aporia, the point at which, in struggling to understand a phenomenon or answer a question, we come up against a seemingly irresolvable contradiction.

Internationalism (see English aporia), ultimately from Latin aporia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑporiɑ/, [ˈɑ̝po̞ˌriɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): a‧po‧ri‧a

aporia

1. aporia

aporia

1. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular conditional of apor

Internationalism, learned borrowing from Latin aporia, from Ancient Greek ἀπορία (aporía).

• IPA^(key): /a.po.ˈri.a/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧po‧ri‧a

aporia (plural aporia-aporia, first-person possessive aporiaku, second-person possessive aporiamu, third-person possessive aporianya)

1. (philosophy, rhetoric) aporia

• “aporia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Ancient Greek.

aporia f (plural aporie)

1. aporia

• rapaio

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀπορία (aporía).

• IPA^(key): /aˈpɔ.rja/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrja
• Syllabification: a‧po‧ria

aporia f

1. (philosophy) aporia
2. (rhetoric) aporia

• aporia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

aporia

1. first/third-person singular conditional of apor