Help on a missing word

[amberfocus]

What is the word that means one thing cancels out the other?  My mind has done a complete blank and I need that word.  It's not oxymoron.  It's um...the other word.  Like one thing does not preclude another thing from happening.  Or just because one thing is true it doesn't mean the other thing can't be true.  This is driving me nuts.  Help!

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[melnay13.livejournal.com]

And now it's driving me nuts...

Not oxymoron, not paradox, not contradiction, erm...

[melnay13.livejournal.com]

Catch-22? dictionary.com is no help...

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Nope. :(

[catyuy.livejournal.com]

Lets see what I got.
Inconsistency
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Contradiction+in+terms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile
and finally
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphors
I'm probably wrong on all of them but there you go.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Not those either. *sighs*

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

No, none of those. *sighs*

[vallora.livejournal.com]

Going out on a limb here: Juxtaposition?

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

No. Closer though.

[irishlullaby.livejournal.com]

contradiction sounds like the right one

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Not quite right.

[doctorsdiva.livejournal.com]

abolish, abort, abrogate, annul, ax, black out, blot out, break, break off, countermand, cross out, cut, deface, delete, destroy, do away with, do in, efface, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, obliterate, omit, quash, remove, render invalid, repeal, repudiate, rescind, revoke, rub out, scratch out, smash, squash, stamp across, strike out, undo, wipe slate clean, X-out, zap*

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Any of these help?

[doctorsdiva.livejournal.com]

Or of course counterbalance?

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, tried that myself. I wish. Thanks for playing.

[kynaii.livejournal.com]

mutually exclusive

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mutually%20exclusive

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

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