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- Dictionarydistress/dɪˈstrɛs/
noun
- 1. extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain: "to his distress he saw that she was trembling" Similar Opposite
- 2. another term for distraint
verb
- 1. cause (someone) anxiety, sorrow, or pain: "I didn't mean to distress you" Similar Opposite
- 2. give (furniture or clothing) simulated marks of age and wear: "the manner in which leather jackets are industrially distressed" Similar Opposite
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1 day ago · v. t. e. In mathematical logic, Russell's paradox (also known as Russell's antinomy) is a set-theoretic paradox published by the British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell in 1901. [1] [2] Russell's paradox shows that every set theory that contains an unrestricted comprehension principle leads to contradictions. [3]