irrationality

[ UK /ɪɹˌæʃənˈælɪti/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˌɹæʃəˈnæɫəti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding
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How To Use irrationality In A Sentence

  • Like Mazur, Pesic starts at the beginning with the irrationality of square roots and proceeds to the solution of cubic and quartic equations.
  • Love is often a victim of its stubbornness, sentimentality, irrationality and absurdity. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • When I read about all the so-called progressives lionizing someone who in a fit of juvenile irrationality assaults our president, I remember how Saddam's son Uday 'lionized' a young man back in 2000, according Saddam's executioner, by having the young man taken to the Uday Huessin's private zoo and put into the lion's cage. Muntadar al-Zaidi Did What We Journalists Should Have Done Long Ago
  • With a "cold" marketplace filled with anonymous entities, the irrationality of nationalism and tribalism is replaced by the peaceful, harmonic, and natural rationality of individualism. Hostility Toward Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The correct use of the term requires the elements of obstinacy and irrationality toward those of differing opinion, especially: one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance. Whittier Daily News Most Viewed
  • I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source.
  • In antiracist analyses the irrationality of popular or working-class racism is conceptualized primarily as a form of false consciousness.
  • But sometimes, usually at night, the president became someone else -- call him "Mr. Bill" -- a doughy, needy mass of uncurbed appetites and fits of irrationality. The Two Mr. Clintons
  • To that end, seek greater awareness of your depravity and the heinousness and irrationality of sin.
  • The correct use of the term requires the elements of intolerance, irrationality, and animosity toward those of differing beliefs. Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
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