Dictionary

antirational en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + rational.

Meanings

1. Lacking or (especially) opposed to reason and rational thought.
   • 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. 2009, Eugene Webb, Worldview and Mind: Religious Thought and Psychological Development, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 61:
   • 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. 1995, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 328:
   • 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.” 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

Forms

Relateds

irrational · non-rational · arational

Translations (1)

pt antirracional (opposed to reason)