Antonyms for rationality
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : rash-uh-nal-i-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌræʃ əˈnæl ɪ ti |
Definition of rationality
Origin :- 1620s, "quality of having reason;" 1650s, "fact of being agreeable to reason," from French rationalité, from Late Latin rationalitas "reasonableness, rationality" (also source of Spanish racionalidad, Italian razionalita), from Latin rationalis (see rational).
- noun logic
- noun sense
- I impugn neither his morality nor his motives—only his rationality.
- Extract from : « Theft » by Jack London
- The theory of rationality is the one at present accepted in political science.
- Extract from : « The Jewish State » by Theodor Herzl
- There is nought to urge against its rationality and its utility.
- Extract from : « The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics » by Various
- The truth has no concern with appearance, but is answerable only to the test of rationality.
- Extract from : « The Approach to Philosophy » by Ralph Barton Perry
- Surely, he continued, as we are images of God we must know that God is the perfection of rationality.
- Extract from : « Rejected of Men » by Howard Pyle
- Rationality in man is not shut up in one air-tight compartment.
- Extract from : « Lux Mundi » by Various
- The rationality of self-regard seemed to me as undeniable as the rationality of self-sacrifice.
- Extract from : « The Methods of Ethics » by Henry Sidgwick
- Our adventurer was not so mad, but that he saw and owned the rationality of these remarks.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves » by Tobias Smollett
- The next year it seems to have had a small side-blow of rationality.
- Extract from : « Witch Stories » by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
- It is the rationality of the dogmas of that theology that Coleridge had a taste for proving.
- Extract from : « English Critical Essays » by Various
Synonyms for rationality
- acceptation
- advantage
- antithesis and synthesis
- argumentation
- bottom line
- burden
- coherence
- connection
- core
- course of thought
- deduction
- definition
- denotatiton
- dialectic
- drift
- gist
- good
- good sense
- heart
- implication
- import
- induction
- inference
- intendment
- interpretation
- linkage
- logic
- matter
- meat
- meat and potatoes
- message
- name of the game
- nature of the beast
- nitty-gritty
- nuance
- nub
- nuts and bolts
- philosophy
- punch line
- purport
- purpose
- ratiocination
- rationale
- rationalness
- reason
- relationship
- rhyme or reason
- sanity
- sense
- short
- significance
- significancy
- signification
- sound judgment
- stuff
- substance
- syllogism
- syllogistics
- thesis
- thrust
- train of thought
- understanding
- upshot
- use
- value
- worth
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