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[ US /ˌɪˌɹæʃəˈnæɫəti/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˌɹæʃəˈnæɫəti/ ]
NOUN
- the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding
How To Use irrationality In A Sentence
- On the scale of media-freak-out irrationality, superbugs have more credibility than the Large Hadron Collider apocalypse, for example, but they're not even up there with swine flu.
- The irrationality of rationality appears wherever quality management focuses on increasing efficiency, and this is then measured by quantifiable, calculable outputs of the drug care system.
- Unable to accept this reality, Kinsley, like many of the president's other critics, continues to spiral downward into irrationality.
- The book has its tedious and turgid passages, but the work is held together by a genuine sense of protest, first of all, against the brutality and irrationality of the penal system.
- It is the irrationality, the unacceptability, the incredibility of our faith that is its chief attraction and our chief asset, and to embrace that is to turn our critics on their heads, because they cannot accept those terms.
- The thought remains imminent - just below perception, and bubbles up in strangely symbolic dreams and eruptions of irrationality in your everyday life like cryptic, confusing posts on a weblog.
- What would be accepted as evidence if not disease, madness, misery, irrationality, frustration, criminality and sickness, that a tragic disparateness now exists between the needs of human beings and the imperatives of society. Rogue Of Gor
- What interests us here is not so much the completely irrationality of Carr's ravings, but the underlying reason for it.
- Only idolatrous devotion could keep such brilliant minds from acknowledging the irrationality of crediting the blind force of nature with such teleological precision.
- He railed against the creation of artificial dichotomies, such as head versus heart, reason versus irrationality.