Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Absence or lack of reason; irrationality.
- n. Nonsense; absurdity.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Lack of reason; unreasonableness; irrationality; nonsense; folly; absurdity.
- To prove to be unreasonable; disprove by argument.
Wiktionary
- n. Lack of reason or rationality; unreasonableness; irrationality.
- n. Nonsense; folly; absurdity.
- v. transitive, rare To prove to be unreasonable; disprove by argument.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Want of reason; unreasonableness; absurdity.
- v. obsolete To undo, disprove, or refute by reasoning.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding
Etymologies
- From un- + reason. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Or again, the term unreason is sometimes used rather more reasonably; for a sort of loose or elliptical statement, which is at least illogical in form.”
“And anomalies accustom the mind to the idea of unreason and untruth.”
“For in the postmodern age of unreason, that is all that matters.”
“Act then, my child, in conformity with justice and duty, regardless of any ulterior object, without considering whether your action will bring you pleasure or pain, without fear of the judgment of men or the envy of the gods, and you will win that peace of mind which distinguishes the wise from the unwise, and may be happy even in adverse circumstances; for the only real evil is the dominion of wickedness, that is to say the unreason which rebels against nature, and the only true happiness consists in the possession of virtue.”
“Reason-Necessity pulling towards the lower, towards the unreason which is its own characteristic, while yet the Intellectual Principle remains sovereign over it.”
““If I can only get there,” she kept saying to herself; and then, with that frantic unreason which is the chief characteristic of the instinct-driven mother: “I might have known that God would punish me for my unnatural conduct.”
“It is true that I think American alcohol laws are both idiotic and chaotic, and based on unreason.”
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“Johann Hari: Republicans, religion and the triumph of unreason - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent”
“The political credibility of the world's beacon of democracy has failed in the face of an insurgency of unreason.”
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“In the face of obdurate unreason, the president of hyper-reasonableness was forced to surrender.”
The Guardian: Britain must resist Tea Party thinking | Polly Toynbee
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( randomness, descriptive, psychology, mindset, perspective, outlook, noun )laziness, inconsideration, pessimism, selfishness, unhappiness, ignorance, jealousy, gluttony, arrogance, passive-aggression, dishonesty, unreason and 14 more...
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