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Irrational vs Religiophobia - What's the difference?

irrational | religiophobia |

As nouns the difference between irrational and religiophobia

is that irrational is a real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number while religiophobia is an irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety of religion, religious faith, religious people or religious organisations.

As an adjective irrational

is not rational; unfounded or nonsensical.

irrational

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical.
    • an irrational decision
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
  • (mathematics, arithmetic, number theory, not comparable) Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.
    • The number π is irrational .

    Antonyms

    * (mathematics) rational

    Hyponyms

    * (mathematics) transcendental

    Derived terms

    * irrational number * irrationality * irrationalize * irrationalization

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.24:
    • The square root of 2, which was the first irrational to be discovered, was known to the early Pythagoreans, and ingenious methods of approximating to its value were discovered.

    religiophobia

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • An irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety of religion, religious faith, religious people or religious organisations.
  • * 1937 , A Chakravarti, Humanism and Indian Thought , G.S. Press, page 2:
    • Hence it is not necessary for the scientists to develop a sort of religiophobia nor is it necessary for the religious man to develop an attitude of suspicion against science.
  • * 1997 , Jim Sleeper, Liberal Racism :
    • Racial groupthink and "religiophobia "...
  • * 2003 , Ethan Walker, The Mystic Christ :
    • In fact he reverses the issue of religiophobia by stating flatly that those who are not against him are for him!

    Antonyms

    * atheophobia

    Related terms

    * religiophobic * religiophobe