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irrationality

noun as in unreason

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A prolonged stigma surrounding menopause symptoms has made some women feel that the term is still associated with traits like irrationality and illness in the workplace.

From Digiday

If you think of irrationality as a consumer good, much like a car or a television, you can better understand why people sometimes say and do crazy things.

From Fortune

Once their price of being irrational went up, the outlets immediately started “consuming” less irrationality.

From Fortune

Many of the rioters will face legal consequences for their actions, raising the price of their irrationality.

From Fortune

After all, doing so would make them complicit in irrationality, which is against their religion.

Absent a complete ban, or total irrationality, judges should simply step off the seesaw.

Billionaire investor expresses impatient with deadlock, but says investors expect limited irrationality from D.C.

There is an honorable dimension to daring rooted in vanity, to reckless boldness, to irrationality in the service of an ideal.

Reality television has never been tame, but aggression, irrationality, and even violence is on the increase.

It is evident that the irrationality of frequent appeals to expensive and bothersome litigation should arouse suspicion.

The imbecile irrationality of this will not have escaped you.

It may have been a mere passing whim or fancy, done in a moment of weakness or emotion or temporary irrationality.

It would seem as if fashion never could take repose but in supreme irrationality.

I exclaimed, vexed by the irrationality, as it seemed to me, of this homely boatman's philosophic views.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to irrationality, such as: foolishness, illogicality, illogicalness, impracticality, insanity, and unreasonableness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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