unreason
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- noun
- /ʌnˈrizən/
- And the term intolerance is of course, just euphemism for a wave of unreason and humanity that was sweeping the country.
- reason and unreason
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Watch on YouTubeFaith comes to know it as falsehood, unreason, and is ill intentioned.
- Faith comes to know it as falsehood, unreason, and is ill intentioned.
- He says my unreason was countered with reason, my reason with real reason.
Examples
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So do faith and unreason, but your point is well taken.
Blog text (23) -
Medicine and witchcraft, pharmacology and demonology, reason and unreason struck an odd alliance.
Academic text (2001) -
But the unreason of faith, and of this particular faith, has been with us a long time.
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Rachel used to say, "And the voice of unreason is heard in the land."
Fiction book (1990) -
Now my world has shrunk to a few square miles, but the voice of unreason is still heard here.
Fiction book (1990) -
Rather, what was needed was a type of anti-art that could effect a balance between reason and unreason.
Academic text (2003) -
The problem with looking for the reasons behind unreason is that, well, unreason doesn't have sensible reasons.
Blog text (14) -
The idea that only someone who'd reached real depths of unreason could muster.
Fiction book (2000) -
Human beings, Richter suggests, are a mixture of opposing characteristics: reason and unreason, conscious and unconscious, civilized and primitive, thought and feeling.
Academic text (2003) -
The politician's speech was filled with unreason, making it difficult to understand his true intentions.
Synonyms
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A lack of clear, logical thinking
A quality of an idea or argument that has no clear, sensible reasons
A way of thinking that does not follow clear reasons
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Etymology
Unreason comes from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and the word reason meaning 'careful thinking' or 'good judgment'. So, unreason is the state of 'not thinking clearly' or acting without logic.