What is another word for irrationalities?

Pronunciation: [ɪɹˌaʃənˈalɪtiz] (IPA)

Irrationalities refer to thoughts or actions that lack logic or reason. There are several synonyms for this term, and some of the commonly used ones include illogicality, irrationalism, unreasonableness, and absurdity. Illogicality refers to a lack of logical reasoning or thought patterns. Irrationalism refers to a belief system that is not based on logic or reason, while unreasonableness refers to actions or behaviors that are not suitable or appropriate. Absurdity refers to a situation or idea that is so ridiculous or nonsensical that it defies reason or explanation. Overall, these synonyms help us to better understand and describe irrational thoughts and behaviors.

Usage examples for Irrationalities

Widdington, Northumberland, 24 April, 1811. He spent most of his life near Manchester, where he became a Socialist and published Letters to the Clergy of all Denominations, showing the errors, absurdities, and irrationalities of their doctrines, '38. This work went through several editions, and the publishers were prosecuted for blasphemy.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
"She doesn't mean anything by it," her little world had always said; and put up with the inconvenience of her furies, with the patience of people who were themselves incapable of the irrationalities of temper.
"The Iron Woman"
Margaret Deland
All difficult or chronic or obscure illnesses would offer an opportunity to its propagandists, and the necessary obscurities and irrationalities of such a system would simply be, for the minds to which it would naturally appeal, added elements of power.
"Modern Religious Cults and Movements"
Gaius Glenn Atkins

Famous quotes with Irrationalities

  • The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia is the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.
    Ayn Rand
  • The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities
    Georg Cantor
  • There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried. Debility is gradually converted into strength, disease into healthfulness: madness, in all its hideous variety, from the ravings of the fettered maniac, to the unaccountable irrationalities of ill-temper, that make a hell of domestic life, into a calm and considerable evenness of temper, that alone might offer a certain pledge of the future moral reformation of society.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • there are many of us who, unconvinced by Hegel, continue to believe that the real, the really real, is irrational, that reason builds upon irrationalities.
    Miguel de Unamuno

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