Is OOP a paradigm or methodology?

Authors often refer to OOP as a programming language
paradigm, but on reflection (albeit an academical one) I'd
rather call it a methodology. After all, many languages now
provide OOP possibilities within their own paradigms (eg
imperitive, logic, functional), but do not (re-)classify
themselves as multiparadigm languages.

What say you?

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