Oxymoron (ox-y-mo’-ron): Placing two ordinarily opposing terms adjacent to one another. A compressed paradox.
He was having one of his high-lows–a complicated mental episode where he was energized by his depression.
He took medication. It made him sleep.
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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