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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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