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Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.
Thomas Mellon

Meaning of "irrationality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IRRATIONALITY

irrationality  [ɪˌræʃəˈnælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IRRATIONALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Irrationality is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES IRRATIONALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Irrationality

Irrationality is cognition, thinking, talking or acting without inclusion of rationality. It is more specifically described as an action or opinion given through inadequate use of reason, emotional distress, or cognitive deficiency. The term is used, usually pejoratively, to describe thinking and actions that are, or appear to be, less useful, or more illogical than other more rational alternatives. Irrational behaviors of individuals include taking offense or becoming angry about a situation that has not yet occurred, expressing emotions exaggeratedly, maintaining unrealistic expectations, engaging in irresponsible conduct such as problem intoxication, disorganization, or extravagance, and falling victim to confidence tricks. People with a mental illness like schizophrenia may exhibit irrational paranoia. These more contemporary "normative conceptions" of what constitutes a manifestation of irrationality are difficult to demonstrate empirically because it is not clear by whose standards we are to judge the behavior rational or irrational.

Definition of irrationality in the English dictionary

The definition of irrationality in the dictionary is the state or quality of being irrational. Other definition of irrationality is irrational thought, action, or behaviour.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IRRATIONALITY


additionality
əˌdɪʃəˈnælɪtɪ
banality
bəˈnælɪtɪ
cardinality
ˌkɑːdɪˈnælɪtɪ
carnality
kɑːˈnælɪtɪ
commonality
ˌkɒməˈnælɪtɪ
constitutionality
ˌkɒnstɪˌtjuːʃəˈnælɪtɪ
criminality
ˌkrɪmɪˈnælɪtɪ
emotionality
ɪˌməʊʃəˈnælɪtɪ
externality
ˌɛkstɜːˈnælɪtɪ
finality
faɪˈnælɪtɪ
internationality
ˌɪntəˌnæʃəˈnælɪtɪ
marginality
ˌmɑːdʒɪˈnælɪtɪ
nationality
ˌnæʃəˈnælɪtɪ
originality
əˌrɪdʒɪˈnælɪtɪ
penality
pɪˈnælɪtɪ
personality
ˌpɜːsəˈnælɪtɪ
proportionality
prəˌpɔːʃəˈnælɪtɪ
rationality
ˌræʃəˈnælɪtɪ
tonality
təʊˈnælɪtɪ
venality
viːˈnælɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IRRATIONALITY

irradiance
irradiancy
irradiant
irradiate
irradiation
irradiative
irradiator
irradicable
irradicably
irradicate
irrational
irrational number
irrationalise
irrationalism
irrationalist
irrationalistic
irrationalize
irrationally
irrationalness

WORDS THAT END LIKE IRRATIONALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
confidentiality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
locality
low-quality
morality
mortality
municipality
quality
reality
sexuality
speciality
spirituality
vitality

Synonyms and antonyms of irrationality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «IRRATIONALITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «irrationality» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of irrationality

Translation of «irrationality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IRRATIONALITY

Find out the translation of irrationality to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of irrationality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «irrationality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

非理性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

irracionalidad
570 millions of speakers

English

irrationality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तर्कहीनता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اللاعقلانية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

иррациональность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

irracionalidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

irrationality
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

irrationalité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak rasional
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Irrationalität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不合理
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비합리성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Irasionalitas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bất hợp lý
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பகுத்தறிவின்மையின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

असमंजसपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mantıksızlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

irragionevolezza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

irracjonalność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ірраціональність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

iraționalitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παραλογισμός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

irrasionaliteit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

irrationalitet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

irrasjonalitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of irrationality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IRRATIONALITY»

The term «irrationality» is regularly used and occupies the 86.196 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IRRATIONALITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «irrationality» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «irrationality» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about irrationality

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6 QUOTES WITH «IRRATIONALITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word irrationality.
1
Paul Bloom
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
2
Irvin Kershner
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
3
Thomas Mellon
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.
4
Jon Ronson
I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.
5
Rodney Stark
Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.
6
Kim Young-ha
I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows the form of a spy novel, but it leads readers into a world of Kafkaesque irrationality.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IRRATIONALITY»

Discover the use of irrationality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to irrationality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of ...
The Upside of Irrationality will change the way we see ourselves at work and at home—and cast our irrational behaviors in a more nuanced light.
Dr. Dan Ariely, 2010
2
Irrationality
In this iconoclastic book Stuart Sutherland analyses causes of irrationality and examines why we are irrational, the different kinds of irrationality, the damage it does us and the possible cures.
Stuart Sutherland, 2007
3
Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
Sebastian Gardner argues that psychoanalytic theory provides the most satisfactory philosophical explanation of irrationality.
Sebastian Gardner, 2007
4
Irrationality in Health Care: What Behavioral Economics ...
" Drawing on behavioral economics as an alternative to the standard tools of health economics, author Douglas E. Hough seeks to more clearly diagnose the ills of health care today.
Douglas Hough, 2013
5
Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality
The eleven new essays in this collection, written by an excellent international team of philosophers, some well-established, some younger scholars, give a rich overview of the current debate over weakness of will and practical irrationality ...
Sarah Stroud, Christine Tappolet, 2003
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Predictably Irrational
Introduction : How an injury led me to irrationality and to the research described here -- ch. 1.
Dan Ariely, 2009
7
Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-scientists, Lunatics, and ...
Reveals how numerous everyday judgments, are based on what the author calls ?everyday irrationality”--misjudgments characterized by story-based thinking, rather than comparative thinking.
Robyn M. Dawes, 2002
8
A Taste of Irrationality: Sample chapters from Predictably ...
But are we? In this newly revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways.
Dr. Dan Ariely, 2010
9
Deductive Irrationality: A Commonsense Critique of Economic ...
Deductive Irrationality examines and critiques economic rationalism by assessing the work of influential political philosophers and economic theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, Gunnar Myrdal, and John F ...
Stephen McCarthy, David Kehl, 2008
10
Dynamics of Crowd-minds: Patterns of Irrationality in ...
A crowd-mind emerges when formation of a crowd causes fusion of individual minds into one collective mind.
Andrew Adamatzky, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IRRATIONALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term irrationality is used in the context of the following news items.
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Our Brains Are Designed for Addiction—And That's Not Necessarily …
The irrationality (including self-destructiveness) of addiction does not indicate that the brain is malfunctioning, as it would if diseased. «AlterNet, Jul 15»
2
The Consequences of Can Kicking | The Weekly Standard
It's called an arms race, and in a region in which irrationality might well top the restraining force of Mutually Assured Destruction. Iranian leaders ... «The Weekly Standard, Jul 15»
3
LETTER: Republicans' true leader is Netanyahu - Asbury Park Press
I sadly offer my own neologism – moronicity. Moronicity describes the irrationality of the “geniuses” who got us into this Islamic quagmire to ... «Asbury Park Press, Jul 15»
4
Daily Reads: Stop Calling It the 'All Female Ghosbusters, | Criticwire
... could have turned out radically worse. The irrationality of "Irrational Man" is this faith in the ordinary — and it's not entirely new to Allen's work. «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
5
Protect Your Bonds From a Market Rout -- Trefis
That's fine; we can profit from market irrationality as well as anyone else. So wait for the next outbreak of gloom in the international markets, with ... «Trefis, Jul 15»
6
The must-learn lesson from Chinese gold holdings - Forexlive
And emotions are what drives irrationality and by extension, opportunity. An excited market moves in ways it otherwise wouldn't and a ... «ForexLive, Jul 15»
7
Report of RS21 meeting on Europe and Q&A - Workers' Liberty
... reverse the international integration of capital means seeking to reverse capitalist development, with all its exploitation and irrationality, yes, ... «Workers' Liberty, Jul 15»
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Letter writer is voice of reason - Montrose Daily Press: Letters
... Helms for her enlightened and compassionate words in regard to same-sex marriage. She is a voice of reason in a wilderness of irrationality. «Montrose Daily Press, Jul 15»
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Bunker's chilling reminder of Cold War age - Yorkshire Post
Mr Mulvihill said: “I had vivid memories of the tangibility of nuclear war during the 1980s but the impetus to make sense of the irrationality of ... «Yorkshire Post, Jul 15»
10
A case study in how not to govern responsibly | MSNBC
“It's possible to find temporary workarounds rather than confront the irrationality of the Republican anti-tax religion,” Chait noted. “But there are ... «MSNBC, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Irrationality [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/irrationality>. Apr 2024 ».
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