Usually means: Impasse in reasoning; intellectual puzzle.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. aporia: Merriam-Webster
  2. aporia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aporia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aporia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aporia: Wordnik
  6. aporia: Wiktionary
  7. aporia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. aporia: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Aporia, aporia: Dictionary.com
  10. Aporia (Forever Never album), Aporia (disambiguation), Aporia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Aporia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. aporia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Aporia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. aporia: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. aporia: FreeDictionary.org
  16. aporia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. aporia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. aporia: Merriam-Webster

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. aporia: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  4. Aporia: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. aporia: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  2. aporia: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (aporia)

noun:  (rhetoric) An expression of deliberation with oneself regarding uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed.
noun:  (philosophy, post-structuralism) An insoluble contradiction, especially in a text's meaning; a logical impasse suggested by a text or speaker.

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