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antirational

adj

Etymology

From anti- + rational.

  1. derived from rationalis
  2. derived from rational
  3. prefixed as antirational — “anti + rational”

Definitions

  1. Lacking or (especially) opposed to reason and rational thought.

    • This view is further illustrated by bringing forward the Catholic doctrines, showing the “antirational notion of them,” and thus exhibiting “the mysterious bearings and incomplete character of the Revelation.”
    • 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.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA