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antirational | antirationality |

As an adjective antirational

is lacking or (especially) opposed to reason and rational thought.

As a noun antirationality is

the quality of being antirational.

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

    antirationality

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being antirational.
  • * 1995 , Arthur Roy Eckardt, How to tell God from the Devil: on the way to comedy (page 4)
    • To "go beyond" theoretical/speculative reason is not to fall into irrationality or antirationality .