irrationality
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6.2
- noun
- /ˌɪræʃəˈnælɪti/
:
irracionalidad
- We often assert that such irrationality can come about from such things as severe and prolonged pain.
- irrationality and rationality
- irrationality and violence
- human irrationality
Now, some people like to measure irrationality objectively from an external point of view.
- Now, some people like to measure irrationality objectively from an external point of view.
- The problem with penalties is they sort of don't work if the syn good itself is causing irrationality.
Examples
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But unlike Frances, Lily represents the irrationality of the Ditties.
Academic text (1995) -
The irrationality of his decisions often left his friends confused about his motives.
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What it results in is a wild irrationality in who gets to make TV and movies.
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If the group had a rational mind, it would encourage irrationality in its members.
Blog text (14) -
There are many aspects of human irrationality I do not yet comprehend.
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Romney has strong religious beliefs not despite the irrationality of his faith, but because of it.
Blog text (4) -
The Lysenko Affair, in short, was thirty-five years of brutal irrationality in the campaign for improved farming.
Academic text (1990) -
Woolf disagrees with Keynes not about the existence of irrationality but about its origins.
Academic text (1990) -
Emotions, overwhelming feelings that cloud rationality and ultimately have deleterious effects, facilitate irrationality.
Academic text (1999) -
It didn't take account of the irrationalities that govern human beings so much of the time.
Synonyms
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6.1
Something very silly that goes against common sense
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4.9
Being very silly or clearly unreasonable
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9.9
A state of not thinking clearly or logically
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6.0
An action or decision that is unfair and does not make sense
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7.9
A state of being very silly and clearly against common sense
A way of thinking that does not follow clear reasons
A quality of an idea or argument that has no clear, sensible reasons
A situation that is very strange and does not make sense
Antonyms
How Rational
Surface Forms
Morphology
irrationality = irrational (transparent) = ir + rational + ity
Standard noun formation from the adjective 'irrational' by adding '-ity' to indicate the state or quality of being irrational.
Etymology
The word irrationality starts with ir- ('not') before rational, which comes from the root ratio meaning 'reason' or 'calculation', and you can see the same root in the English word ratio. So, irrationality is the state of being 'not reasonable' or lacking 'reason'.