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Lack of reason or rationality; unreasonableness; irrationality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Examples
- c. 1566, John Knox, The Historie of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland, Book I, London: 1644, Another day the same Frier made another Sermon of the Abbot of Unreason, unto whom, and whose Laws, he compareth Prelats of that age; for they were subject to no Laws, no more than was the Abbot of Unreason.
- 1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, “Shiraz, 18 February,” Of all the foreigners I have met in this country, diplomats, business men, and archaeologists of many nationalities and varying terms of residence, Christopher is the only one who likes its inhabitants, sympathizes with their nationalist growing-pains, and consistently upholds their virtues, sometimes to the point of unreason.
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Nonsense; folly; absurdity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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To prove to be unreasonable; disprove by argument.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, transitive
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To apply false logic or think without logic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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To make unreasonable; to deprive of reason.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: irrationality
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Broader terms: insanity
From Middle English unreson; equivalent to un- + reason.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
безумие
(bezumie)
— lack of reason
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Esperanto:
malracieco
— lack of reason
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German:
Unvernunft
— lack of reason
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Irish:
aingiall
— lack of reason
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Irish:
éigiall
— lack of reason
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Irish:
míréasún
— lack of reason
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Polish:
bezrozum
— lack of reason
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Polish:
bezrozumność
— lack of reason
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Bulgarian:
глупост
(glupost)
— nonsense, folly
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French:
déraison
— nonsense, folly
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German:
Torheit
— nonsense, folly
