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Antinational vs Antirational - What's the difference?

antinational | antirational |

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

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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:
  • 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 [...].

    antirational

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking or (especially) opposed to reason and rational thought.
  • * 1839 November, “G.E.E.”, “Article III — and General Review , Volume XXVII, Number II, 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.”
  • * 1995 , Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical , Penn State Press, ISBN 978-0-271-01441-8, 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.
  • * 2009 , Eugene Webb, Worldview and Mind: Religious Thought and Psychological Development , University of Missouri Press, ISBN 978-0-8262-1833-9, 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.

    See also

    * arational * irrational * non-rational