antirational

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ rational.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æʃənəl

Adjective

antirational (comparative more antirational, superlative most antirational)

1. Lacking or (especially) opposed to reason and rational thought.
   • 1839 November, “G.E.E.”, “Article III — Tracts for the Times. […] ” (book review), in The Christian Examiner and General Review, Volume XXVII, Number II, pages 196-197:

     This view is further illustrated by bringing forward the Catholic doctrines, showing the “antirational notion of them,”^{[sic – meaning apparent misquotation]} and thus exhibiting “the mysterious bearings and incomplete character of the Revelation.”

   • 1995, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 328:

     Rand refused to detach even a seemingly radical rebellion from the social totality in which it emerged. The New Left was as much an outgrowth of the antirational as the culture it had rejected.

   • 2009, Eugene Webb, Worldview and Mind: Religious Thought and Psychological Development, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 61:

     His own conception of a genuine (fifth order) postmodernism is not at all antirational and embraces everything that was a source of real strength in the fourth (“modern”) order of consciousness.

Translations

opposed to reason

• Portuguese: antirracional (pt)

See also

• arational
• irrational
• non-rational