Antinational vs Antirational - What's the difference?
antinational | antirational |
Opposed to one's own nation; unpatriotic.
Opposed to purely national concerns; not founded on the idea of the nation.
* 2007 , John Darwin, After Tamerlane , Penguin 2008, p. xi:
Lacking or (especially) opposed to reason and rational thought.
* 1839 November, “G.E.E.”, “Article III — and General Review , Volume XXVII, Number II,
* 1995 , Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical , Penn State Press, ISBN 978-0-271-01441-8,
* 2009 , Eugene Webb, Worldview and Mind: Religious Thought and Psychological Development , University of Missouri Press, ISBN 978-0-8262-1833-9,
As adjectives the difference between antinational and antirational
is that antinational is opposed to one's own nation; unpatriotic while antirational is lacking or (especially) opposed to reason and rational thought.antinational
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(en adjective)- just as important have been the effects of diasporas and migrations (creating a mobile, ‘anti-national ’ historical tradition) and the partial liberalization of many regimes [...].
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(en adjective)pages 196-197:
- This view is further illustrated by bringing forward the Catholic doctrines, showing the “antirational notion of them,”(apparent misquotation) and thus exhibiting “the mysterious bearings and incomplete character of the Revelation.”
page 328:
- Rand refused to detach even a seemingly radical rebellion from the social totality in which it emerged. The New Left was as much an outgrowth of the antirational as the culture it had rejected.
page 61:
- His own conception of a genuine (fifth order) postmodernism is not at all antirational and embraces everything that was a source of real strength in the fourth (“modern”) order of consciousness.